Bug 203061 – net-im/gajim - Tray icon on GNOME not transparent

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Marek Kubica 2007-12-22 19:31:18 UTC]

Hi,

Recently, I set my GNOME panel to be transparent. Now, all status icons (in the notification area) also have a transparent background (XChat of example), except for Gajim which uses the system default background color and looks out-of-place.

I am using Gajim 0.11.1 from the stable tree, but the problem seems to be the same when using the upstream 0.11.1 or 0.11.4. I asked some Ubuntu people, and they don't have this problem. Using Gajim built from the Ubuntu source did not help either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set GNOME panel to be transparent
2. Start Gajim
Actual Results:  
The Gajim tray icon has a non-transparent background

Expected Results:  
Transparent background of the Gajim tray icon

[Comment 1 Christian Häßler 2008-02-19 16:32:18 UTC]

Created attachment 143987 [details]
Screenshot to show the Problem.

[Comment 2 Christian Häßler 2008-02-19 16:32:58 UTC]

Comment on attachment 143987 [details]
Screenshot to show the Problem.

I can't solve this Problem but i think to know where the Problem is.

The Icon has as Background Color the Color of the Panel this is the description of Gnome-Color-Chooser i have installed. The Panel itself has another background-color (thisone you can change in the Panel options menue). I have made an Screenshot which should show the difference (no this color's are not my default!!!)

If you use something like compiz or beryl you would not see this i think. This is the reason i don't saw is in my old ~86 Gentoo with compiz-fusion.

[Comment 3 Marek Kubica 2008-02-19 17:09:13 UTC]

I looked into this problem. The problem is caused by ``/usr/share/gajim/src/systray.py``. It imports one of these modules: ``egg.trayicon`` (preferably) which is part of gnome-python-extras or ``trayicon`` which is part of Gajim. Now, you can either change this file and change ``egg.trayicon`` to ``egg.trayicon_``, which causes the import to fail, so Gajim uses it's own module which does work.

Then, I tried unmasking gnome-python-extras-2.19.1-r1, and ``egg.trayicon`` was working. I wanted to see for a patch, as 2.19 seems to be a development version. The Gentoo tree contains 2.14.2, but the GNOME FTP server does have 2.14.3 available. Now that is the exact version this bug was fixed: <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python-extras/2.14/gnome-python-extras-2.14.3.news>

I'll file a bug to update and stabilize the gnome-python-extras 2.14.3 ebuild.

[Comment 4 Peter Weller (RETIRED) 2008-10-20 08:13:16 UTC]

Old, and apparently not a Gajim problem? Feel free to re-open if you believe that this is still an issue!