notify-osd provides incomplete set of default notification-* icons

[Brandon Williams]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Applications using the new notify-osd will typically use a new set of icons with notification-* names. The Human Gtk theme is the only one that provides these icons. Users who choose a theme with a different icon set get no icon, just an empty space where the icon should be. Perhaps the notify-osd package, or an appropriate icon-theme package, could provide a default set of icons that will be used by Gtk when there is no such icon in the currently selected theme.

[Brandon Williams (opensource-subakutty)]

I'm sure that this will most likely be marked at "wishlist" priority, and I'm fine with that, since the typical user who has selected a different theme will recognise that it is easy to include the Human theme icons in the selected them. For example:

    $ mkdir -p ~/.icons/gnome/scalable/status
    $ cp /usr/share/icons/Human/scalable/status/notification* ~/.icons/gnome/scalable/status/

Still, it would be a nice touch to install these new icons in such a way that Gtk will use theme as the defaults for any icon theme that does not provide its own set. The notify-osd bubbles don't look quite right when the icon is missing, since there is a blank space where the icon should be.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

What version of notify-osd are you using, because this problem was fixed some time ago. notify-osd ships a set of fallback icons in /usr/share/notify-osd/icons. It uses these if your icon theme does not provide it's own icons, and works fine for me here.

[Brandon Williams (opensource-subakutty)]

$ lsb_release -dr
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
$ dpkg -s notify-osd | grep Version
Version: 0.9.11-0ubuntu1

As you point out, the icons are there in the package, but when I specify the gnome icon theme without the user-specific customisation that I described in my previous comment, the icons do not appear in the bubbles.

What else can I do to help debug this?

[Brandon Williams (opensource-subakutty)]

Ah-ha ... the problem is not that there are no default icons provided ... it's that the default icon set is incomplete. For example, the wireless icons used by nm-applet are not provided, nor is the power-disconnected icon.

Of the 58 notification icons provided by the Human theme, only 12 are in the default set provided by notify-osd. There are 7 provided by notify-osd that are not in the Human icon theme, but that shouldn't be an issue.

[Brandon Williams (opensource-subakutty)]

Changing back to new, since my comment on 2009-04-12 answered the only outstanding question.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

This is confirmed to be happening in Jaunty.