symbolic icons and non-Gnome-shell system trays

["Shawn J. Goff" <shawn7400 gmail com>]

In both Awesome and Tiny2 (probably several others), the system tray 
battery icon (from gnome-settings-daemon) shows up completely black and 
transparent, regardless of the icon theme in use; this causes issues if 
the system tray area is dark. The icon looks fine in gnome-shell: 
light-gray and transparent. It seems that either gnome-shell or 
gnome-settings-daemon is applying some processing to get the icon to the 
needed shade. What is doing that?

If it is gnome-shell, then it seems that means the system tray 
implementation is expected to colorize/shade the icon, and this I can do 
myself. If it is gnome-settings-daemon, then it seems that I need some 
way to tell gnome-settings-daemon what color  need - how would I do that?

Thanks,
Shawn J. Goff