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Bug 766368 - "Notification missed" circle looks broken
"Notification missed" circle looks broken
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: message-tray
3.25.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 787532 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-05-13 10:47 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2017-09-13 08:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
notification circle (2.72 KB, image/png)
2016-05-13 10:47 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		  Details
dateMenu: Use icon for message indicator (4.12 KB, patch)
2017-09-12 13:17 UTC, Florian Müllner 		committed Details | Review

Description Bastien Nocera 2016-05-13 10:47:25 UTC 
Created attachment 327778 [details]
notification circle

gnome-shell-3.20.2-1.fc24.x86_64

The small circle we used to have wasn't supposed to change, I don't think, and we get a big ugly circle that touches the text now.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2016-05-13 10:59:30 UTC 
This circle is provided by the "emoji one" font, and in colour.

If the icon is supposed to have a particular size and shape though, it should really be an image, rather than a character in a font.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2017-09-12 09:17:18 UTC 
This happens with the now upstreamed emoji work in cairo, fontconfig and pango, with the emoji one font, as available in Fedora.
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2017-09-12 10:27:06 UTC 
*** Bug 787532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 James Ye 2017-09-12 11:01:57 UTC 
The character currently used is "medium black circle", which has the description "UI symbol for record function".  The icon `media-record-symbolic' might be an acceptable replacement.  It may be better to create a new icon, however.
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2017-09-12 13:17:26 UTC 
Created attachment 359625 [details] [review]
dateMenu: Use icon for message indicator

Using a unicode character here means it may look quite different
from the intended style (for instance with emoji fonts). Avoid
this by providing a custom icon and use that instead.
Comment 6 Rui Matos 2017-09-12 13:50:39 UTC 
Review of attachment 359625 [details] [review]:

lgtm
Comment 7 Florian Müllner 2017-09-12 15:34:42 UTC 
Attachment 359625 [details] pushed as bddc2c0 - dateMenu: Use icon for message indicator
Comment 8 Peter Y. Chuang 2017-09-13 08:54:14 UTC 
I'm not sure if it's how this commit is supposed to do, but I can't seem to get the circle displayed properly if I'm not using Adwaita, hicolor, or HighContrast icon themes.