Re: symbolic icons and non-Gnome-shell system trays

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

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
<tetromino gentoo org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Shawn J. Goff <shawn7400 gmail com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Sounds like https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673749
>
> A patch fixing that bug is in >=gtk+-3.5.4, and will also appear in
> gtk+-3.4.4 (not released yet); some distros have also already added
> the patch to their gtk+-3.4.3 packages.
>
> -Alexandre.

No, it's not that bug; they're talking about icons not being rendered.
In my case, the icon is rendered, it's just black. You can see a
screenshot here:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39471/how-can-i-change-the-battery-icon-in-the-systray