mail-notification's icon in the notification area has got a solid grey background.

[David Planella]

That means that when the colour of the panel containing the mail-notification icon is other than the default GNOME grey (e.g. another solid or transparent colour), the mail-notification icon background does not match that of the panel's.

This is just a smal issue but it makes the panel visually unpleasant when not using the default colour and does not say much about GNOME's polish. Having a transparent icon background would make it independent of the panel's colour.

In the last few weeks there have updates to make the backgrounds of GNOME applets transparent, so I think it makes sense that mail-notification gets this feature too, which IMHO would not be very difficult to implement.

These are links to the recently fixed bugs regarding this same issue for the gmail-notify, gDesklets and gnome-python-extras packages (some of the comments provide patches):

https://launchpad.net/bugs/43332
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40443
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40444

[David Planella (dpm)]

This patch I created, based on

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=59957

fixes this bug. After applying the patch, the background of the mail-notification icon is transparent as desired.

I've tested it on my Dapper system and it seems to work well.

Could someone else please review this patch and test it as well?

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Added patch, thanks.

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Patch isn't applied.

You have to change
--- mail-notification-2.0.dfsg.1/src/eggtrayicon.c.orig 2005-07-31 00:43:35.000000000 +0200
+++ mail-notification-2.0.dfsg.1/src/eggtrayicon.c 2006-05-11 20:38:59.000000000 +0200

to

--- src/eggtrayicon.c.orig 2005-07-31 00:43:35.000000000 +0200
+++ src/eggtrayicon.c 2006-05-11 20:38:59.000000000 +0200

in the patch.

[David Planella (dpm)]

My mistake, sorry.

I didn't realise that I had not submitted a proper debian patch, since I just applied it directly to the sources when I tested it on my system.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Seeing that the patch was added to 2.0.dfsg.1-2ubuntu2, I guess this bug could be closed, couldn't it?

Does the package maintainer has to mark it as fixed or can "regular users" as myself also do that?

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Bernat, the package doesn't build, so we should let it open until it's fixed.

[David Planella (dpm)]

This patch is a corrected version of the one I previously submitted. I simply modified it to make it a proper Debian patch. Now the package should build correctly and the mail-notification's icon background in the notification area should be transparent.

@Whoopie, you were right.

I forgot that I'm using my own package instead of the one from the repos. Let's hope submitting the proper patch speed things up.

[Pablo (pabloa)]

Any progress of this bug?

[Peter Meiser (meiser79)]

Fixed in Edgy with mail-notification 3.0.dfsg.1-3ubuntu1.

[Nathaniel Dube (z3ro3x-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm having the same issue in 10.04.

[Alejandro Díaz-Caro (janus)]

I confirm the issue in 10.04

[Alejandro Díaz-Caro (janus)]

The issue reappeared in Ubuntu 10.04

[Elim Garak (nightflyer-71)]

Yes, the issue is back in 10.04 64-bit.

[Bassu Khan (bashukhan)]

Transparency is a problem though with A LOT of more applications' tray icons but this one is really annoying.
Fix it as the patch doesn't work anymore.

[karlrt (karlrt)]

hm, still there on maverick

[karlrt (karlrt)]

This seems to be a new issue, not a direct regression to the old bug fixed in edgy. For me, it was rather this bug, which affects a lot of packages:

https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa

I tested a fix for gnome-panel, which works perfectly:

Just add https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa and see if this fixes it. If not, you can still reopen this bug!

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

This bug is back in Natty

[Hai NGUYEN VAN (psaxl)]

This bug appears in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with GNOME 3 Session Fallback. Is there any fixes ?

Regards,