Tray icon not visible in Mint Cinnamon 17.2

[souvikonline]

I am using the Void (http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/uploads/themes/C7AR-WYUC-R6K0.png)

theme for Cinnamon in Linux Mint 17.2. The tray icon is not visible. Please see the screenshot.

[gmorten1]

i have the same or similar problem in ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) with the Mate desktop (gnome-based desktop similar to cinnamon). i have the latest scudcloud 1.0-53 from the repo. i didn't have this problem with the previous version

specifically, the panel icon disappears when i have a pending notification. i see the normal empty cloud icon when nothing is pending,

but when a DM comes in the icon first flashes the blue cloud icon (no number) and then disappears completely except for a black underline

the icon files (e.g. scudcloud-attention-1.svg) look ok if i open them in an external viewer

[gmorten1]

incidentally, looking at souvik's screenshot i think he has a different problem (which i also encountered before) -- the pale color of the transparent "empty cloud" icon scudcloud.svg is almost an exact match for the default panel background color. i "fixed" this by changing my panel background.

[0xd3adsh3ll]

@gmorten1 I have the same problem as yours.
linux mint 17.2

[roman-kiselenko]

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[sergey-sukiyazov]

Hi
I found cause of this problem. It happens for me under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS too.
Problem is in file systray.py at line 38:

    def setCounter(self, i):
        print( "i =", i)
        print( "scudcloud-attention-"+str(int(i)))
        if 0 == i:
            if True == self.urgent:
                self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon.fromTheme("scudcloud-attention"))
            else:
                self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon.fromTheme("scudcloud"))
        elif i > 0 and i < 10:
            self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon.fromTheme("scudcloud-attention-"+str(i)))
        elif i > 9:
            self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon.fromTheme("scudcloud-attention-9-plus"))

there is code

self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon.fromTheme("scudcloud-attention-"+str(i)))

but value of i became as float, i.e. we got 2.0 instead of 2 and we have wrong name for icon. So, we need to convert float to integer before call str(...), i.e.:

self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon.fromTheme("scudcloud-attention-"+str(int(i))))

this solve the problem.

[raelgc]

Thank you for the investigation and fix @fishbullet !

[gmorten1]

awesome guys, just updated to 1.0-55 and my issue is fixed. thanks!

as i mentioned previously, i now think that the original issue reported by souvik is a different problem -- the "empty cloud" icon in the hicolor icon theme doesn't have enough contrast on the light gray default panel background color on some gnome-based desktops. if you zoom on his original screenshot it's evident that the icon is actually there, but it's nearly invisible due to lack of contrast.

[roman-kiselenko]

Thanks @sergey-sukiyazov for the investigation, i just make a fast PR.

[raelgc]

Well, nice team work :)

[msaggiorato]

Hey guys, i'm getting this in MATE too, not sure if this was already pushed to the repository that we use to install the app.

Also, it would be great to be able to change the tray icon like it's possible to change the app icon.

[grinderX19]

Confirming the same for Xfce4.

[raelgc]

@msaggiorato But you can do the same as the for app icon. Just remember to use dpkg-divert to keep your changes between updates.

For some reason, under Xfce4, Qt is using the icon for dark themes, located at /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg and should be using /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg.

If someone play with the code under Xfce4, the file is systray.py and this is the line:

 self.setIcon(QtGui.QIcon.fromTheme("scudcloud"))

[pescobar]

I am getting the same problem in Linux Mint 17.2 with MATE using scudcloud 1.1-1. I have checked that the patch in systray.py which is mentioned in previous comments is applied.

When opening scudcloud from the shell I get this message which I don't know if could be related:

"sni-qt/6099" WARN  10:46:34.586 void StatusNotifierItemFactory::connectToSnw() Invalid interface to SNW_SERVICE 
No bp log location saved, using default.
[000:000] Cpu: 6.69.1, x4, 2600Mhz, 7927MB
[000:000] Computer model: Not available
[000:000] Browser XEmbed support present: 1
[000:000] Browser toolkit is not Gtk2 (0).
[000:000] Using Xt toolkit
No bp log location saved, using default.
[000:000] Cpu: 6.69.1, x4, 2600Mhz, 7927MB
[000:000] Computer model: Not available
java version "1.7.0_85"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.1) (7u85-2.6.1-5ubuntu0.14.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.85-b03, mixed mode)

UPDATE: When I get a notification I can see something:

maybe the default icon is not visible with my theme?

[pescobar]

after reading this issue #229 I found a workaround doing this:

sudo cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg.backup

sudo cp /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg

Now it's not perfect but at least I see something in the systray: