Desktop Icon on budgie-desktop very big

[git001]

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Expected behaviour

The nextcloud Icon should be scaled to the taskbar size and not other way around.

Actual behaviour

With the update of nextcloud desktop to 3.2 is the Icon in the task bar very big and does not scale to the taskbar size.

uname -a
Linux alex-TUXEDO-Book-XP1511 5.8.0-50-generic #56~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 12 21:46:35 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
/usr/bin/budgie-desktop --version
budgie-desktop 10.5.1
Copyright © 2014-2019 Budgie Desktop Developers

I have to increase the "size" for the bottom task bar to 60 to see the other icons

Steps to reproduce

1. run budgie-desktop
2. run nextcloud desktop 3.2

Client configuration

Client version:

/home/alex/Downloads/Nextcloud-3.2.1-x86_64.AppImage --version
Nextcloud version 3.2.1git (build 5546)
Git revision 5901a0f9835261a640cd8bc9397bcd3068f2acd8
Using Qt 5.12.9, built against Qt 5.12.9
Using Qt platform plugin 'xcb'
Using 'OpenSSL 1.1.1g  21 Apr 2020'
Running on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, x86_64

Operating system: 20.04.1-Ubuntu

OS language:

# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Qt version used by client package (Linux only, see also Settings dialog): 5.12.9

Client package (From Nextcloud or distro) (Linux only): AppImage

Installation path of client: /home/alex/Downloads/

Server configuration

not necessary for this issue.

Logs

Please use Gist (https://gist.github.com/) or a similar code paster for longer
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1. Client logfile:
   Because it's a client Issue I don't think that the client logs are required here.

2. Web server error log:

3. Server logfile: nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log):

[FlexW]

It's probably a problem of budgie not the desktop client. I don't have this problem with other status bars on different Linux Distributions.

[fossfreedom]

This is a Qt issue together with the icon size next cloud is presenting to the appindicator.

Discussion here for a similar Qt issue UbuntuBudgie/budgie-indicator-applet#18

[FlexW]

@fossfreedom Thanks for pointing this out. I don't know where I can find the appindicator spec on the internet, or if there even is one. I'm only aware of the sni specification which I think is the "official" tray icon specification on Linux. The specification does not talk about that icons should be send in a specified size (which makes sense in my opinion, because the application does not know how big or small the status bar is). I'm not sure if we can do anything about this issue. Please tell me if I'm wrong or missing something :)

P.S.: I have just seen the tray icon implementation for swaybar, but they simply scale the icons to the right size. Maybe budgie should do the same.

EDIT: According to the Qt documentation, Qt implements the SNI specification. https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsystemtrayicon.html

[fossfreedom]

appindicators / ayatana indicators should be 16px - 24px for .png images - for .svg images they are autosized (normally).

No - we don't fiddle with appindicator images - that is up to the implementator (appindicator creator) - images can be - for example - very wide.

[git001]

Thanks for all answers.
After a reboot of the machine and the new Version is the Icon now normal.
I don't know if the reboot or the new version was the fix, but now is the size back to "40" and the icon is similar small as all other icons

[dreamcat4]

hey there, i think there is a bug in budgie here in a different sense:

• when this app indicator bug occurs (not budgie fault) it may occur in the app indicator, before budgie gets the icon butmap images to render
• then the budgie panel automatically grows itself larger, to accomodate the smallest size of the largest icon to display. which is the bugged icon here in this case. ok we understand that now. ok.
• however this 'auto resize' size is now different (and larger) than the pixel size of the user setting which the user already specified in budgie control panel settings
• ok... so why is that a bug?
• its a bug in budgie that the other windows next to the panel are all still snapping to the user specificed panel height. which is no longer true. so then the panel and the snapped window(s) overlaps each other
• if budgie changed the height of the panel (for whatever reason), then maybe budgie should update its internal windows running state more properly elsewhere, to reflect and calculate based on the actual (real) panel height. not the user specified panel height

ok so you can argue also an option for the user to 'force the panel height' respect it. then the too large icons will be cut off and occluded etc. either way its a buggy situation.

so in my next post i shall talk about addressing the real (root cause) bug. because that is more important thing we need to be fixing. it's just the real bug revealed another hidden bug elsewhere that's all

[dreamcat4]

ok so what happened to me today?

• upgraded from 20.04 --> 21.04
• noticed the svg icons resizing bug happen again
• looked at the new svg icon in question
• looked at the old svg icon in question

they are different SVG files to each other, but both of them exhibits a similar issue. icon too big. So why? well in the 1st icon you can see here there is a property viewBox="0 0 48 48"... well the SVG icon is rendered at 48 pixels sizing. Too big! It needs to render at 22px or 24px whatever.

OK so that was the new icon. What about the old icon? Well that one was huge. It rendered at over 100px icon size. So was it the same SVG property fault? No! it was <svg enable-background="new" height="102.4" width="102.4". Which is different svg property name. But similar.

ah ok, so just edit the properties, bad svg right? Well it does demonstrate the issue here: if i edit the new icon, and make it viewBox="0 0 24 24" instead of 48 px, the icon now is smaller! Great! But wait...

it seems all of the instructions in the SVG is all based of 48 pixels geometries. So when I change the outside box size to 24px (or 22px whatever). The other draw instructions in the svg are not changed. So it only displays 1/4 of the icon. The rest is cut (cropped) off. And not actually scaled.

So the real solution I'm still not sure. However we can see a 'workaround' at least. Given that the QT bug might be harder to fix. At least we can get by until then. The question now is well.... how do i convert the bad SVG icon?

Maybe the problem is because the top level 1st <svg> parent tag has these 'master' property. Which is then noticed by QT. So perhaps we don't need to rewrite whole SVG geometries (difficult). If we can instead just move the property out of the toplevel tag. So it does not 'trigger' QT. But still exists there in some child nodes. Like <div> in HTML. However IDK if that is works.

Also IDK where is the spec for compliant SVG icons. If you know please link it. Many thanks.

new svg icon:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 48 48">
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   <stop style="stop-color:#575757;stop-opacity:1"/>
   <stop offset="1" style="stop-color:#616161;stop-opacity:1"/>
  </linearGradient>
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old svg icon (which was of my original before times issues, months back):

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