Comment 0 for bug 382347
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| Bruce van der Kooij (brucevdk) wrote Implement resize functionality for tray icons | #0 |
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Current windowing specifications (see EWMH, ICCCM) specify that each window sets an icon of sort sort, which is XPM based and stored in the X Server as a resource. AllTray currently fetches this icon through wnck's get_icon method and uses it in the tray. Regretfully as XPM is a raster format and as the icons are usually quite small (e.g. 24x24) they will not scale up properly (e.g. when the panel is resized).
There is a window manager hint called WM_ICON_NAME but it does not seem like this is used (the specification defines it as a should, not a must), so a possible workaround could be:
1. Find an icon using the name from /proc/<pid>/status.
2. If that fails, fall back to what libwnck uses.
It may however also be possible to cache all .desktop files and find the application icon by matching the values from /proc against the Exec keys. If a .desktop file cannot be found the procedure above may provide a nice fallback mechanism.
Using GTop as an abstraction towards all the process stuff looks like a good idea to me. As there aren't yet any bindings for Vala to GTop this will have to wait (Michael is working on this).