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Bug 583272 - have a way to provide monochrome icons for system status area icons
have a way to provide monochrome icons for system status area icons
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 614711
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: notification area
2.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-19 22:26 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2011-02-01 02:32 UTC
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Description William Jon McCann 2009-05-19 22:26:51 UTC 
Many products use monochrome (or low color) style icons in the system status area.  For example: OS X, iPhone, android, moblin, etc.

It would be nice if we have a way to do this while retaining the ability to use high color icons for the rest of the icon theme.

One of the problems today is that some of the status icons use standard icon names from the naming spec (the volume indicator for example).
Comment 1 Lapo Calamandrei 2009-05-19 23:42:10 UTC 
This is not a gnome icon theme bug, as you said the icons used in the notification area are just normal icons so we can do nothing about it.
We'd need special icon names for notification area icons, and every application (ab)using the notification area should use these names.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-05-20 00:57:10 UTC 
One work-around could be to set the GtkStatusIcon widgets to use one of the HighContrast icon themes. Not sure it's possible to set a separate icon theme for a widget though.
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2009-06-01 23:06:31 UTC 
Ok, new plan.

We should add a new tray manager hint for the icon theme to:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-latest.html#id2509999

_NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_ICON_THEME

and we'll modify clients to use this and respond to changes.  We'll likely need to make some changes to GtkStatusIcon to enable this.
Comment 4 Dan Winship 2010-07-14 17:12:51 UTC 
didn't this already get implemented via another bug?

(either way, it no longer blocks the shell, which isn't going to be using trayicons there)
Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2010-07-14 17:22:29 UTC 
Then what _are_ you going to use ?! I must have asked this question a million times already, for ages. Without ever getting a clear answer...
Comment 6 Dan Winship 2010-07-14 18:04:30 UTC 
Yeah, we never had a clear answer until last week.

The UI parts of it will be entirely in javascript, in the shell. For icons that need access to complicated data (eg, network), they'll get the raw information from another process (eg, nm-applet) via D-Bus, and then create an appropriate visualization of that information in JS.

(This is based on the assumption that there are going to be several major redesigns of the status area after the initial implementation, and so we want the UI aspects of it to be completely determined by code in the shell, so we can implement those redesigns ourselves without needing to coordinate with multiple other modules.)
Comment 7 Vincent Untz 2011-02-01 02:32:26 UTC 
It's really a dup of bug 614711.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 614711 ***