notification area applet does not scale icons, or have transparency

[Matthew J. Ballard]

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Beta

Grabbed AWN today, and ran with notification area applet. Noticed the applet sticks out like a sore thumb, as it takes a grey bg, and the icons vary in size.

http://sapphiretiger.com/ditch/awn.png

From terminal:

sapphiretiger@watson:~$ avant-window-navigator
Screen is composited.
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/main-menu.desktop
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/taskman.desktop
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/showdesktop.desktop
APPLET : /home/sapphiretiger/.config/awn/applets/weather.desktop
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/PySwitcher.desktop
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/trash.desktop
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/notification-area.desktop
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/volume-control.desktop
APPLET : /usr/local/lib/awn/applets/stack.desktop

(awn-applet-activation:6426): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(awn-applet-activation:6426): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x9f8460 (GdkPixbuf at 0xaff800)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x9f85f0 (GdkPixbuf at 0xaffed0)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x9f89b0 (GdkPixbuf at 0xb3a8a0)>
<gtk.gdk.Pixbuf object at 0x9f89b0 (GdkPixbuf at 0xb3a940)>

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks for the report.
Unfortunatly, it's a know bug of the notification arena. No solution have been found now.

[Adal Alom Rodríguez (arpia49)]

Ubuntu Gutsy.

No way to see Notification area working.

[Green Dragon (great-wyrm-green-dragon)]

On Ubuntu (not sure about other OS's) only one notification area can be running at a time. To see awn's notification area just remove the notification area from the main panel, add the applet to awn, log off, log back on, and bingo, it should be there. Hope this helps. Also, I agree. The notification area does stick out like a sore thumb.

[Adal Alom Rodríguez (arpia49)]

Thnx Green Dragon.

it's the first time I read about 'the only one systray'.

[Gijs Corten (gijs-corten)]

I can confirm this bug. using the notification area-plugin means you will end up with a fully functional, but very ugly little systray.
Some icons, like liferea, rhythmbox and network manager are the right small size, but pidgin for instance, spawns a very big icon.
To make it even more painfull to watch is that it indeed spawns an ugly grey box around it.

This kills the good looks of AWN entirely.

[lemmy01 (ralf-lehmann)]

Have the same problem.
No way to fix this???

[pavpanchekha (pavpanchekha)]

For everyone who posted on this bug, the issue is well known but work has not yet been started due to the impossibility of doing so. There is a chance that the issue would be fixed in 0.3. Please refer to the wiki for more information:

http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=FAQ#Why_is_the_notification_area_applet_so_ugly.3F

[Dan Martin (bithooked)]

Okay, so we've established that it's not very practical to fix the transparency issue. But what about the other half of this issue title? The improper scaling of svg icons in the notification area is a big problem. It goes beyond bad looks, it makes it nearly unusable.

Banshee-1 and the Ubuntu Update Manager (during installs only) both result in huge notification areas. This, I suspect is fixable since they are fine under the standard Gnome notification applet. I've attached a screenshot showing the issue.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Seems that notification area for gnome-applet will gain transparency in the next release of GTK+ and GNOME (2.26).

See this for more informations :
- DIscussion on xdg spec : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2008-September/009919.html
- Patch for GTK+ (commit for 2.15) : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552959
- Patch for gnome-applet (not commit now) : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552953

[onox (onox)]

Scaling icons issue is fixed in 0.3.2.