Re: [Banshee-List] Ugly icon in Notification area

[甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm gan gmail com>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair gmail com> wrote:
> On Sunday 25,April,2010 06:29 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair gmail com> wrote:
>>> On Sunday 25,April,2010 06:02 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair gmail com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday 25,April,2010 03:08 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair gmail com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sunday 25,April,2010 01:54 PM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:
>>>>>>>> It seems the icon of Banshee in the Notification area doesn't have a
>>>>>>>> transparent background, which makes it displayed ugly. Is there
>>>>>>>> anything I misconfiged or should I file a bug report, thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is an existing bug report at
>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588255. But it isn't easy to fix
>>>>>>> because the Gtk# guys refuse to update Gtk#, so we're stuck with an outdated
>>>>>>> Gtk.StatusIcon.
>>>> Just a little question, why Tomboy has this correct? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Isn't tomboy a panel applet on its own, rather than a notification area icon?
>>> Either way, Banshee only seems to have this problem on certain themes. For
>>> example, I had never seen this issue in any of the themes I have used.
>> Tomboy is a panel applet, I am using Azel (one of the best pixmap
>> theme), default Clearlooks is ok, but usually with some themes which
>> has a  panel background definition, problem occurs.
>
> And that's the reason. The bug only affects notification area applets. It's
> probably some issue between gnome-panel, the notification area, and the Gtk+
> Engine (in particular, themes which use the Murrine engine from git seem to work
> fine). I don't know why some applications work and why some don't. But if we
> knew, then the bug would get fixed really easily. The theme I am using is
> "elementary-remix"[1], and it has a gradient background. One of my posts in bug
> I linked earlier in this thread has a screenshot showing Banshee's icon working
> just fine with it.
Yes, I got it, haha. Thanks again.
>
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> [1] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elementary+remix?content=110612
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> P.S. Please use "Reply All" to keep this on the thread.
Sorry for my carelessness.
>
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> Kind regards,
> Chow Loong Jin
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