Monochrome Tray Icon

[ceiphr]

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The current tray icon has a blue outline, just like the application icon. Other messaging services such as Discord and Slack use monochrome tray icons by default with a drop shadow for improved contrast on light-mode tray backgrounds. Windows and Linux DEs such as GNOME seem to also use monochrome icons by default for their trays.

Can we see Signal Desktop use a monochrome icon for consistency with these other services?

That would be great, thank you!

Platform Info

Signal Version:

v1.38.1-beta.3

Operating System:

Ubuntu 20.10

[brainchild0]

On a related issue, does the application currently support Linux icon theming?

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[brainchild0]

Please keep open.

[indutny-signal]

Thank you. This is on our radar. Assigning to keep the bot away.

[mac-tron]

+1. I'd appreciate this also.

[emkay5771]

Was this implemented?

[benmordecai]

I am still interested

[amithiel]

well, did anyone got some monochromatic icons already?

[Helmchen-Lord]

Would be nice to have.

[holocronweaver]

My wishlist:

• monochrome icons
• Linux icon theming
• scalable icons

Currently on Linux the Signal tray icon looks grainy at pretty much all resolutions and sizes. Part of the issue is the design, which features tiny dashes around the word bubble that become badly aliased at tray icon scale. A simplified and scalable icon would largely fix this.

Not to say this should block adding a monochrome version of the current icon, but would be great to make changes with all desired features in mind.

[svasek]

I was so happy, when you finaly introduced monochrome tray icon in version 7.43. Now, in version 7.44 it's gone and there is ugly blueish icon instead. It's the only color icon in my tray and it's just awful and distracting 🤢.

Please give us the clean monochrome tray icon back! 🙏