Unable to tell who's online based on mono icons

[Ruben Verweij]

Binary package hint: empathy

I'm using Maverick. The new mono status icons for Empathy do not allow me (with mild colour blindness) to distinguish between online/away/offline etc. friends. I suggest either switching back to the old icons or drawing the respective symbols in a dark colour on the icon instead of white. If any more information is needed, I will happily provide it.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. This is a bug for ubuntu-mono and Omer took care of marking as such. I'm invalidating the empathy task since this is only a mono issue. This is also a wishlist since having the mono icons there are as designed, therefore marking as such.

Marking as triaged, since Ubuntu maintains the mono package.

Perhaps a screenshot pointing out the visual errors would be helpful to the devs.

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

Thanks for your help. Here is the screen shot you've requested, I hope it will be useful.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the icon theme didn't change since lucid how come empathy is using the panel icons now?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

empathy now uses icons from the theme previously it did not.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

empathy changed the code

#define EMPATHY_IMAGE_HIDDEN "user-invisible"
#define EMPATHY_IMAGE_AVAILABLE "user-available"
#define EMPATHY_IMAGE_BUSY "user-busy"
#define EMPATHY_IMAGE_AWAY "user-away"
#define EMPATHY_IMAGE_EXT_AWAY "user-extended-away"
#define EMPATHY_IMAGE_IDLE "user-idle"

before it was:
empathy-invisible
empathy-available
.....

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

anyway instead of using the transparent color to draw the symbols
inside the bubble, a solid dark color could be used.

[Hannu Leinonen (hleinone)]

Aren't those icons intended to be used on dark backgrounds, not white? Empathy's background color should either match the one of the panel or use the dark versions of the icons.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I don't remember when this was fixed, but Empathy has long switched back to using color status icons, and the messaging menu now uses color status icons too.