transparent icon in tray

[0xd3adsh3ll]

Hello, after upgrade the tray icon became is transparent
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Release: 17.2
Codename: rafaela
scudcloud --version
ScudCloud 1.2.0

It's like seem as issue #192

[raelgc]

It's not transparent, it's using a color too close to the systray color.

This sounds like a problem in Mint. When it's too bright, people is complaining about not visible in bright colors. Now under dark.

In default Ubuntu (with Unity), we're placing icons under /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark and /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light, so Qt will detect automatically.

Is there something similar for Mint?

[0xd3adsh3ll]

Hello, @raelgc. Sorry for my mistake.

Is there something similar for Mint?
hell hellname # ls -l /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light
итого 20
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 сент. 10 11:12 16x16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 сент. 10 11:12 22x22
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 сент. 10 11:12 24x24
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 июля 21 2015 scalable
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 июля 28 09:25 status
hell hellname # ls -l /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark
итого 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 сент. 10 11:12 16x16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 сент. 10 11:12 22x22
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 сент. 10 11:12 24x24
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 июля 21 2015 scalable

[raelgc]

@0xd3adsh3ll, np.

I think those 2 folder were installed by ScudCloud.

Wondering which theme Mint uses by default, if there are something similar to the 2 Ubuntu light/dark themes.

[raelgc]

Maybe we use a colored (purple) icon, like the program icon, so we can avoid this problem in Mint. What do you think, @0xd3adsh3ll?

[panzerdp]

Hi @raelgc
First of all thanks for the application, I'm using it every day :).

I have the same problem with the icon. The issue appeared after latest update.
Thanks.

[alsar]

The same problem is on Ubuntu. On the default theme the displayed icon is ok, but if you use any custom theme you always have the black icon.
I didn't have any problems until the update.

[raelgc]

I'll change the hicolor icon to be a colored one. So we can avoid users with non-default dark themes complaining about dark icon, and users with non-default light themes complaining about the light icon.

[panzerdp]

@raelgc Sounds good. The active icon is blue anyway, but the default could be green for example.

[raelgc]

Can you try, please:

1. Remove the svg running: sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg
2. Copy the colored icon running: sudo cp /usr/share/pixmaps/scudcloud.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/
3. Update icons database running: sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor
4. Quit ScudCloud and open it again.

To revert:

1. sudo rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/scudcloud.png
2. sudo apt-get install --reinstall scudcloud

[panzerdp]

@raelgc After executing command 1, I have this error:
rm: cannot remove ‘/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scudcloud.svg’: No such file or directory
I'm using Mint 17.2 with Cinnamon.

[raelgc]

Oops, should be in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/

[raelgc]

I've udpated the commands.

[panzerdp]

Yes, looks better now. The icon looks a bit weird because it's png, but as temporary solution will work.
Thanks.

[raelgc]

@panzerdp Ugly as hell!

Can you try, please:

1. Revert steps using the instructions I've pasted above
2. Open this link, save in your homefolder and replace the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scudcloud.svg with this new one (using sudo)?

It's not a perfect SVG (I'm really newbie in Inkscape), so if someone can improve it, we'll be really glad!

[panzerdp]

Thanks @raelgc, it does look better now.

[raelgc]

Thanks for the long testing, @panzerdp!

The fix is merged and I'll deploy today after test other minor fixes!

[panzerdp]

Great! Thanks for the quick fix @raelgc.

[0xd3adsh3ll]

@raelgc thanks for fix!

[raelgc]

I'm glad it worked, @0xd3adsh3ll! Thanks for your patience!