GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 130202
GAIM Buddy Icons distorted
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I'm using the Windows version of GAIM, including GTK 2.0 (Win32 port). I've noticed that my AIM Buddy Icons look distorted. I cannot read text at the bottom of the icon very well, and it just doesn't look like it should. I use Windows XP Home. I had the problem with an older version of GAIM, running GTK 1.x (not sure which exact version). I talked to GAIM support, and they say the problem is GTK related. It's not urgent. But it would be nice to see icons the way they're meant to look.
Could this be a duplicate of bug #116821 (which got fixed when bug #128762 was fixed)? Are the icon colours wrong?
No, it's not a taskbar icon. But a Buddy Icon. In GAIM, the AIM Buddy Icons are in the Instant Message window, on the bottom-left. In this screenshot you can see a Buddy Icon in the Linux version of GAIM. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php?file=aimicq.png It's the Debian icon in the bottom left. That's an example, though. In Win32, however, icons can be distorted. Animated icons, that is. The stationary icons look just fine. The colors are good, but it's the look of the icons. Let me get a screenshot... http://www.geocities.com/bmyers017/screenshots/gaim-screenshot.jpg (copy/paste link, it's Geocities. Oh, and I hid the names of my friends. Privacy thing, you know.) The text on the bottom of the icon is supposed to read "Don't Ask". The very right edge of the icon is cut off. And the figures in the animation are distorted. On Linux, the icons display perfectly. No distortion. But on Win32 (WinXP is what I use) they just aren't right. (Oh, and the icon in the upper-left corner of the window, and in the taskbar, is supposed to be a stationary view of the AIM Buddy Icon. That's not a bug that it looks that way.) It's not like, super important. It's just annoying to not be able to make out what the icons that my friends use are.
Duplicate of bug #119290, then?
I'm not sure. Honestly, I'm no programmer (yet). So I have no idea what the technical stuff means. Sorry I can't help there. But, the distortion is different. In that bug you linked to, the bits are mirrored. But in this, they're just missing. It may be that the buddy icons use transparencies. Where the background is transparent, and the rest of the image is on top of it. Seems like the black pixels are missing. The icons are in .gif format, which allows both transparent backgrounds and animation. I've not tried a .gif transparent image without animation. But with transparent colors and animation, the image has some distortion. Looking at it, I think it may just be the black pixels that are disappearing. Though I could be wrong. Perhaps it's pieces of black that are only 1 pixel wide. As it happens mainly with text and black quote balloon outlines that appear on top of the transparent color. Even some non-animated icons are off-center. The right edge is cut off. But not all of them. Could be isolated. But there are some animations that don't use transparent colors, and they look just fine. I do think it's the use of transparent colors and black used on top of them. But I don't know what the technical term for that is.
To me this looks like a duplicate of bug #126710, which even has a patch to fix it ;)
Yeah, that sounds like the problem, though it only talks about XPM and PNG files. I'm sure it applies to other image types, too... The only thing close to a patch, that I saw, were the two posts by the bottom that had that code in a plain text file or something. Honestly, I don't know what to do with those. If they're .patch files, then my Windows XP doesn't recognize them. (I can't even extract them from a .tar.gz file, even though all the other files can be, but that may just be ZipGenius.) Anyway, I'm clueless as to how to use those files as a patch. Unless I'd have to open one or more .dll files in Notepad, and paste the code in myself. Even then, I don't know which files to open... Help, please :(
Here a patch is a source code snippet, if you don't have a compiler and some additional tools there is nothing you can do with. Please wait for gtk binaries with version >2.4.1. Oh and although the other bug only talks about PNG and XPM it probably applies to all image formats with transparency *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126710 ***