Broken tray icon with Appindicators

[cl0ne]

Cinnamon 2.4.5 (System Tray applet), Arch Linux, libappindicator 12.10, leftmost icon is Guake:

As a quick-and-dirty solution I'm using

--- guake_app.py    2015-01-01 03:23:58.251836090 +0200
+++ guake_app.py.orig   2014-11-23 19:36:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
             self.tray_icon.connect('activate', self.show_hide)
         else:
             self.tray_icon = appindicator.Indicator(_("guake-indicator"), _("guake-tray"), appindicator.CATEGORY_OTHER)
-            self.tray_icon.set_icon(pixmapfile("guake-tray.png"))
+            self.tray_icon.set_icon("guake-tray")
             self.tray_icon.set_status(appindicator.STATUS_ACTIVE)
             menu = self.get_widget('tray-menu')
             show = gtk.MenuItem(_('Show'))

[bepvte]

Bump! Manjaro with xfce:

Left one is guake.

[sanderboom]

MATE (GTK2):

Most left is ... you guessed it

[Jesse-Millwood]

I don't know if this applies here or not but with Xubuntu 14.04 the original guake icon shows up in my Notification area but it does not use the icon for my theme.

I have guake 0.7.2 on Xubuntu 14.04. For me this is just a minor annoyance. Otherwise I could not be happier with guake!

[thwarted]

Just throwing some more information out there since I'm investigating this issue right now...

Also an issue for me on Fedora 21, xfce spin, xfce4-panel-4.10.1-6.fc21 x86_64, guake 0.7.2. It wasn't always like this, I think the package compiled by upstream that was installed on my system on July 3rd is when it started happening. From looking at the package changelog, I think this package made no local modifications.

The tool-tip "Guake Terminal" also doesn't show on my setup. That, and poking around in the code trying various things, makes me think that this is some new incompatibility with some tray related desktop environment library (which may have also been updated around the same time).

Investigation continues...

[thwarted]

Really should have seen this sooner, it's been a long day...I was concentrating on the code in the exception handler for when import appindicator fails. On July 1st I happened to pull in the package python-appindicator as part of another package's dependency resolution, and that's what broke this for me.

The (reverse) of the patch given by @cl0ne in the original issue fixes this for me.

[shirishag75]

It looks weird in mate-panel 1.20.3 and has been looking for a long time.

I am using ayatana appindicator but still it looks weird/broken

I did see the png files but came none the wiser -

$ dpkg -L guake | grep png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/add_tab.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-128.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-48.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-64.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-notification.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-tray.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/quick-open-python-exception.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/quick-open-selection.png
/usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/quick-open.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/guake.png

$ mediainfo /usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-tray.png 
General
Complete name                            : /usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-tray.png
Format                                   : PNG
Format/Info                              : Portable Network Graphic
File size                                : 987 Bytes

Image
Format                                   : PNG
Format/Info                              : Portable Network Graphic
Format_Compression                       : LZ77
Width                                    : 20 pixels
Height                                   : 20 pixels
Bit depth                                : 32 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Stream size                              : 987 Bytes (100%)


$ mediainfo /usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-notification.png
General
Complete name                            : /usr/share/guake/data/pixmaps/guake-notification.png
Format                                   : PNG
Format/Info                              : Portable Network Graphic
File size                                : 2.90 KiB

Image
Format                                   : PNG
Format/Info                              : Portable Network Graphic
Format_Compression                       : LZ77
Width                                    : 48 pixels
Height                                   : 38 pixels
Bit depth                                : 32 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Stream size                              : 2.90 KiB (100%)

I do have libayatana appindicator installed as well.

[ivoshm]

Looks like more general problem. If tray icon of Guake is zoomed at 21+ px, it's broken - in my case in XFCE panel (see #1110).

[shirishag75]

There is something called Ayatana indicators which is a continuation of appindicator and they have made something called guake-indicator as well .

Some links for more background -

https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/67

https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/24 - an older but perhaps more background info. on the need in Debian.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/03/msg00506.html
https://ayatanaindicators.github.io/
https://wiki.debian.org/Ayatana/IndicatorsTransition

So it seems guake needs to transition it

There is something called guake-indicator but it's a different package having somewhat different goals, it seems -

https://wiki.debian.org/Ayatana/IndicatorsTransition#Package:_guake-indicator

Guake indicator lets you send custom commands through the D-Bus System. Commands can be manually edited in a XML file under ~/.guake.indicator or generated through guake-indicator edit-menu system GUI.

From the manpage - guake-indicator lets you manage your favorite customized commands establishing a new connection with Guake dropdown terminal.

http://guake-indicator.ozzyboshi.com/

the xml file - https://paste.debian.net/1046842/

[gsemet]

hi. If you feel motivated to hack the guake code to make it work on your system, I would be so glad :)