Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps)

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that have a transparent background.

I attach a screenshot.

This bug is noticed when:
a) Themes set a background image in the gtkrc
b) If users set a custom image for the panel from Panel Properties > Background > Background Image

***This bug affects all themes , but has become easier to notice since the default light-themes use a background image.***

Also , see , comment #99 , might be a regression in gnome-panel since Karmic release.

[Neil Broadley (scaine)]

Can you try closing Banshee, open system/preferences/appearance and choosing a different theme - say Dust, or Dust Sand - then re-running Banshee to see if it updates its background?

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Tried but the black background is still there.

[Nikola Yanev (gericom)]

the same here,
also happened with Gmusicbrowser. Changing the themes ot the composide doesn't work.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I can also confirm this bug on Karmic. I also have version 1.4.3-5.
Changing the theme or panel background doesn't solve the problem.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

I've seen the same thing running an old build of rhythmbox that worked fine on Jaunty.

Dave

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

There's already a Liferea bug about this (and it's fixed in upstream trunk)

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

I think it was fixed at some point of time (i.e. I don't see it in any previously anffected application) but I don't know which updated was it.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Yes, the problem indeed seems gone now.

[Richard Cavell (richardcavell)]

I confirm that recent updates have fixed this bug for me (64-bit Karmic alpha 4 on a MacBook).

[James Schriver (dashua)]

Can you change your gnome-panel to transparent and see if the black box is still present? I am seeing it in many applications including Banshee, Exaile, and Transmission to name a few.

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

I see a grey background for Pidgin and Twinkle.

Looking at /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/tray/16, I find this application ships *.ico files *shock and horror*. I don't think this is related though.

Looking at the various pixmaps, they all have transparent backgrounds. Hmm ....

[Chonnawonga (brad-meredith)]

I'm currently getting a white background for the Banshee icon, though other icons display normally. This is on Karmic Alpha 6 with the most recent updates.

[[e-mail] (bekirserifoglu)]

I can confirm this bug on Karmic Alpha 6. Pidgin tray icon has non-transparent background when you set the gnome panel to be transparent.

[[e-mail] (bekirserifoglu)]

"alltray" is affected as well.

[Oli (oli)]

liferea, banshee and pidgin all show as grey backgrounds on my semi-transparent panel. Looks very unpolished.

This is something that has happened in previous alphas and has subsequently been fixed. I'd be tempted to point the finger at gnome (and the way it handles icons) rather than the individual apps... But I could be wrong.

It'd be nice if somebody who knows how these things work could get involved and tag this bug under the corresponding gnome project.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Oli wrote:
> liferea, banshee and pidgin all show as grey backgrounds on my semi-
> transparent panel. Looks very unpolished.
>
> This is something that has happened in previous alphas and has
> subsequently been fixed. I'd be tempted to point the finger at gnome
> (and the way it handles icons) rather than the individual apps... But I
> could be wrong.
>
> It'd be nice if somebody who knows how these things work could get
> involved and tag this bug under the corresponding gnome project.

In the case of Liferea, I believe it's a bug in the eggtrayicon code. It's fixed
in trunk, since it uses GtkTrayIcon.

So I don't think GNOME is at fault here.

[Stefan Nagy (stefan-nagy)]

I can confirm this bug on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta. The tray icon of Banshee 1.4.3 has a non-transparent (light gray) background when I set the GNOME panel to be transparent.

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

And the question is why this is happening. The pixmaps used have an
intact transparent background and are in no way special compared to
other tray icons. At least that's what I see in /usr/share/pixmaps .

[alex_osborn (alex-osborn0)]

im getting this with ubuntu karmic alpha 6 i have EXACTLY the same as <email address hidden> #14 had ( http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32111146/Pidgin-non-transparent.png )

[Mankeys (mankeys)]

One more screenshot:

[jpfle (jpfle)]

There's a bug with AllTray because all applications that I put on the notification area (open AllTray and click on a window) have a gray background. I have this bug since my fresh update from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.

See the attached screen shot.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

This is fixed in recent versions of AllTray, provided that the icons provided for the application have a transparent layer to them so that the panel color appears as intended behind the icon. However, AllTray's latest releases will not be available for Ubuntu until 0.8.0 is released (unless someone packages a dev release, such as 0.7.4dev). It is my hope to have 0.8.0 out for Karmic + 1, but this really depends on me figuring out how to implement close-to-tray, as this really seems to be the most popular feature of the software.

[Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm having this issue too. Ubuntu Karmic Beta.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

Can confirm the bug is still present in Karmic FINAL release.

I've updated but haven't received the fix apparently released yesterday.

[Gotty (alaniray-hotmail)]

I have the same issue with Pidgin...

[laurent (laurent-wozniak)]

I'm having the same issue with "Mail Notification".

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

What's the status on this bug? Can we get a fix sometime soon please?

I've tried hunting around the icon image files but all of them are .pngs with the correct transparency - so it's not the applications, it's something to do with the notification area, gnome or gnome-panel.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

Here's an image of the problem on my computer.

[Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount)]

Apparently it is related to the object applications use to create their status icon.

I've heard mentions of "GTKStatusIcon" (supposedly the solution), "GTKTrayIcon" and something about an eggicon.
Presumably, these are all interfaces to make the notification area icons, with GTKStatusIcon tending to be the thing cited as the answer in most of the forums and mailing lists I've seen.

I don't pretend to know what all of that means, but I do know that it was working fine until Karmic. If Banshee was using method X to create a tray icon in Jaunty, it still behaves the same way in Karmic! The logical conclusion is that something has changed _outside_ of the applications which are reporting the bug.

Some feedback from someone who knows anything about this would certainly be appreciated - by everyone here, no doubt.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Saturday 31,October,2009 06:17 PM, Cyberkilla wrote:
> Apparently it is related to the object applications use to create their
> status icon.
>
> I've heard mentions of "GTKStatusIcon" (supposedly the solution), "GTKTrayIcon" and something about an eggicon.
> Presumably, these are all interfaces to make the notification area icons, with GTKStatusIcon tending to be the thing cited as the answer in most of the forums and mailing lists I've seen.
>
> I don't pretend to know what all of that means, but I do know that it
> was working fine until Karmic. If Banshee was using method X to create a
> tray icon in Jaunty, it still behaves the same way in Karmic! The
> logical conclusion is that something has changed _outside_ of the
> applications which are reporting the bug.
>
> Some feedback from someone who knows anything about this would certainly
> be appreciated - by everyone here, no doubt.
>
Regarding Banshee and Gtk.StatusIcon, I've poked around Banshee's source code
and noticed that Banshee has support for using a "X11NotificationAreaBox" and a
"GtkNotificationAreaBox", both of which are internal classes within the
Banshee.NotificationArea extension.

The X11NotificationAreaBox is the one that's generally used, and the
GtkNotificationAreaBox (uses Gtk.StatusIcon) is the one that's used if
X11NotificationAreaBox fails to load. I've tried reversing the order, and can
confirm that this resolves this bug, but with a caveat -- GtkNotificationAreaBox
does not have support for the Notification Area popup that appears showing the
album art, artist and title, instead giving a regular text tooltip.

Digging more around Gtk.StatusIcon, it seems that gtk+ >= 2.16 should have
features required to port over all Banshee's fancy notification area icon
features, but there isn't a Gtk# 2.16 yet[1].

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529023#c8

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[acetox94 (acetox94)]

This Bug is not only in ubuntu 9.10, I have got Arch-Linux and it seems to be only in Gnome 2.28
Thats all I wanted to say :D

[raven (jkdyzrexkngb)]

I can confirm this on my karmic final 64 up to date system
firestarter, vuze and banshee have the gray around the notification icons
while others are ok like ubuntuone, klipper, cryptkeeper

[vaughn (vaughngrisham)]

+1 on Checkgmail. Jungledisk's icon is also incorrectly rendered.

[vaughn (vaughngrisham)]

I'm attaching a screenshot of my cruddy looking Karmic notification area.

[trigoman05 (helenacoder)]

I can also confirm this for pidgin and alltray.
I have included a screenshot of pidgin, for some reason alltray was not appearing :S

[MrPok (wiebenik)]

Confirmed. I have just upgraded to Karmic Koala and I also have a pidgin icon without transparent background in the systray.

[ilym (ilym)]

+1 with Banshee and aMSN (and many other software)

[daqron (daqron)]

Same problem here, Banshee + Pidgin. Very ugly. Is anybody working on fixing this?

[Jan Tiedemann (aeonspire)]

+1 pidgin, checkgmail

[Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount)]

@Chow Loong Jin: Very interesting. I wonder what can be done to call more attention to this bug. It seems unusual that such an active bug report would receive so little feedback/questions from developers.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Saturday 07,November,2009 11:00 PM, Cyberkilla wrote:
> @Chow Loong Jin: Very interesting. I wonder what can be done to call
> more attention to this bug. It seems unusual that such an active bug
> report would receive so little feedback/questions from developers.
>
Look at the upstream Banshee bug (gnome-bug #588255) -- it's getting attention.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Saturday 07,November,2009 11:00 PM, Cyberkilla wrote:
> @Chow Loong Jin: Very interesting. I wonder what can be done to call
> more attention to this bug. It seems unusual that such an active bug
> report would receive so little feedback/questions from developers.
>
Actually, you know what? I can't seem to reproduce this bug over here. What GTK
theme are you using? And what window manager? Compositing on or off?

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Fabio Mazanatti (fmazanat)]

Hi,

I have the same faulty behaviour, below the info I gathered from your questions. Don't know how to tell if composition is on/off.

What I noticed and didn't see described at this bug is that the color below the icon follows the "Controls" option on "Customize Theme" (Appearance widget). If I change from Clearlooks to HighContrastInverse, the icon's background goes from gray to navy blue. Can't say if this is relevant or not; anyways, the info is here.

pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0
2.18.3

env | grep -i gdmsession
GDMSESSION=gnome

From Appearance:
   Controls: Clearlooks (and tried with Clearlooks Classic, Crux, Dust, HighContrastInverse)
   Window Border: New Wave (but got the same with Clearlooks, Human, Glossy, Dust)
   Icons: Dropline Neu! (the same with Human, Gnome Human, etc)

If any other info would help, just let me know.

Cheers,
Fabio Mazanatti

[Fabio Mazanatti (fmazanat)]

Of course, I'm using transparency at my panel. If the icons aren't using the transparency flag, I suppose they should at least honor the selected solid color linked to the transparency setting (white, in my case), and not the Control configuration...

Fabio Mazanatti

[Fabio Mazanatti (fmazanat)]

Sorry about the little pieces of info, I swear this is the last one. About the misplaced color following the Controls setting, actually the background is filled with the "Windows -> Background" color selected at "Colors" tab from "Customize Theme"... just changed mine to orange, and here it is.

Cheers,
F.M.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

For me, the window manager doesn't make a difference, I get it with Compiz
and Metacity. Metacity also with compositing turned on or off as well.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Fabio Mazanatti <email address hidden>wrote:

> Sorry about the little pieces of info, I swear this is the last one.
> About the misplaced color following the Controls setting, actually the
> background is filled with the "Windows -> Background" color selected at
> "Colors" tab from "Customize Theme"... just changed mine to orange, and
> here it is.
>
>
> Cheers,
> F.M.
>
> ** Attachment added: "screenshot4.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35328379/screenshot4.png
>
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> Notification area icon wrongly rendered/has a black background (multiple
> apps)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in AllTray: Fix Released
> Status in Banshee Music Player: New
> Status in Beagle Desktop Search: Unknown
> Status in gmusicbrowser with now-playing support: New
> Status in Mail Notification: New
> Status in Pidgin: New
> Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.: New
> Status in “alltray” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “checkgmail” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “liferea” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how
> to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its
> notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that
> have a transparent background.
>
> I attach a screenshot.
>

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Cheers,
Benjamin

[pytrisss (pytrisss)]

Also affects Opera. Bug report sumbited.
I tried to set it as affected project here but ended with (Error ID: OOPS-1409H1222).

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Monday 09,November,2009 06:06 PM, pytrisss wrote:
> Also affects Opera. Bug report sumbited.
> I tried to set it as affected project here but ended with (Error ID: OOPS-1409H1222).
Opera is close-sourced so we cannot do anything about it. You'll have to bug the
Opera guys.

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Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Denis Winz (winz)]

Same here, Karmic final. Pidgin and gSTM are affected.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Please, before you post "me too" or "same here" again, and upload yet another
useless screenshot, look at how many screenshots we have in this bug already!
That is seriously ENOUGH, so PLEASE do not upload another, or reconfirm this bug
again, or even post here unless you have something useful to add. And no, yet
another screenshot of the same applications not having the transparent
backgrounds in the notification area is not useful at all.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount)]

@Chow Loong Jin: The colour behind the icons is the same as the colour of the panel, if you remove any background image or transparency.

With regards to Opera, perhaps they don't _need_ to get involved. This change happened outside of the applications affected. The mechanism they all use to produce a tray icon has changed its behaviour, it seems.

Of course, I can't back that up with any proof. It's just my educated guess. I just find it hard to believe that so many applications suddenly had a regression without it being a shared, external factor.

The issue presents itself irrespective of the GTK theme used, or whether compositing is enabled.

The workaround of updating each individual application to use "GTKStatusIcon" (?) instead may work, but it's not really fixing the cause of the problem, I suspect.

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GTK Version 2.18.4
GNOME 2.28.1 (but it happened early on in Karmic's development cycle)
Ubuntu Karmic Koala
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[cdwillis (cdwillisrules)]

@Cyberkilla, what do you mean "updating each individual application to use "GTKStatusIcon" (?) instead may work"? I'm using Banshee 1.6 Beta 2 (1.5.1) from the PPA and even though the icon itself has transparency when Banshee adds it to the notification area I still get the tray icon with the clashing background. I was hoping this would be a simple workaround.

[geneqew (geneqew-gmail)]

+ 1 to pidgin and beagle.. but mine has white background on a transparent panel..

[Daniel Frincu (daniel-frincu)]

The background is consistent with the system theme even though panel is transparent.

[Vish (vish)]

The same problem also exists with vuze.
But surprisingly , the problem is present *only* if i install vuze from the repos .

If i download the vuze package [linux version] from the vuze site , extract the contents and run vuze from the location in my home directory , this problem is *not* present.

[Hernán (hernan-onzalo)]

Have the same problem with some icons like the JDownloader and Amarok (1.41). But worst is with the network manager, that doesn't work in the notification area, it's just a grey square. I'm using Karmic.

[Tsu Jan (tsujan2000)]

This bug is present in Debian Squeeze too, with Pidgin, Firestarter, Mail Notification, StarDict and Liferea.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

So it's obviously an upstream Gnome bug.

[Vish (vish)]

Why isnt this a gnome-panel bug? It affects several apps.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

I can confirm this bug is still present in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Alpha 1.

[Tares (tares)]

Sonata too does suffer from this :/

[Hannd (plk5325)]

Still present in Arch Linux too.

A friend said me that in Fedora this doesn't happens. I can't confirm this.

[Tsu Jan (tsujan2000)]

I think this is an upstream bug of gnome-panel. It doesn't appear in LXPanel's systray or Stalonetray.

[Sandro (alessandro-mascia)]

On Karmic with Banshee 1.5.3. from ppa, the icon background takes the colour from the basic panel colour.

[San (sanjogsharma)]

My notification area(that contains battery level indicator, wireless status al) is not displaying at all, I see a bar and that's it. I need to connect to wireless and I can't so that. I think this is related to the above problems.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Wednesday 06,January,2010 10:16 AM, San wrote:
> My notification area(that contains battery level indicator, wireless
> status al) is not displaying at all, I see a bar and that's it. I need
> to connect to wireless and I can't so that. I think this is related to
> the above problems.
>
I don't think it is. Did you remove the notification area applet from your panel
by mistake?

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[San (sanjogsharma)]

^ Yes once, but I added it back and removed it again, then added it back.

[Vish (vish)]

Adding and confirming vlc task from dup

[iforgotalready (294264-gmail)]

Setting visual effects to NONE appears to fix this problem in my case.

[Oliver (t.raum)]

Also Claws-Mail icon is affected.

[Hew (hew)]

Pidgin fix in MTN, to be released with Pidgin 2.7.0.

[Alejandro Cuervo (a-cuervo)]

All icons affected.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Which version of Shutter do you use? On my machine Shutter's icon is fine.

[Alejandro Cuervo (a-cuervo)]

Shutter v0.85.1 Rev.725

[Oliver (t.raum)]

Sometimes after a while (?may be after suspend/resume - I cannot reproduce) also taskcoach has a grey instead of a transparent background

[Gary Trakhman (gary-trakhman)]

if you guys want to try the svn pidgin, the there's a ppa with it here. Works for me on lucid, fixed the bug.

https://launchpad.net/~frasten/+archive/ppahttps://launchpad.net/~frasten/+archive/ppa

[Alvaro Aleman (alvaroaleman)]

Still present in an up-to-date Lucid Alpha 3 with "Ambiance" and "Radiance" theme (that means in every theme that has not a white panel). To see it, simply install Banshee and you will see it's icon with an ugly white background in your panel.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

Still present in Lucid Lynx alpha 3 with the "Ambiance" and "Radiance" themes.

But, interestingly, it goes away when you use the following themes:

Homosapien
Kin
Clearlooks
Turrican

Apart from Clearlooks, these are all from the "community-themes" package.

It's obviously theme dependent. I've attached a screenshot of my Lucid desktop running Homosapien, and you can see that the Banshee and Pidgin icons are displayed correctly. (I've moved the window controls back to where they should be, this is actually Lucid.)

[Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount)]

I keep being told that it's because these icons aren't using the new GTKStatusIcon, but that seems like a cop out to me.

A few releases ago (possibly Intrepid) this problem appeared in every tray icon. It seems to be true that some applications have fixed the issue by using GTKStatusIcon, but I don't think that's the root cause at all.

Something regressed in whatever the icons were using before, which triggered this problem, months ago.

That's what it seems like to me. I'm open to be proven wrong, but I have a pretty clear memory of all of being able to change my panel colour, transparency and even add an image without the icon backgrounds being broken.

[macstevejb (macstevejb)]

Running Lucid Alpha 3...icons affected by this unsightly behaviour in the gnome notification area are: banshee, mail-notification, checkgmail, vlc.

Strangely, xchat and choqok appear fine.

Using the default Ambient theme.

[macstevejb (macstevejb)]

As a further footnote, I just installed a new theme (ambience clean from gnome-look.org) and the icons appear as they should.

So this bug is obviously theme-related.

[Alejandro Cuervo (a-cuervo)]

The weird part is that all my icons were fine. The problem started when I switched my video card from an Nvidia 9600GT to an Nvidia Quadro NVS 450. The former was with twinview and the newone with xinerama.

Same theme.

[Jonathan Blackhall (johnny-one-eye)]

I seem to recall this (or something strikingly similar) being a bug with the murrine engine. Anyone have thoughts?

[Yura Tolstik (yltsrc)]

layout switch applet looks ugly with any theme (different font size and color with system defaults)

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Marking this as invalid for Banshee. See Bug #525280 for Banshee.

[menthurae (menthurae)]

macstevejb (#83) - you are incorrect - if you look carefully, the background for the icons has just become dark grey - and are NOT themed appropriately (i.e. respecting transparency or gradients in the theme).

Compare the background for X-Chat and Banshee if you can't see what I'm talking about (zoom in and increase the brightness of your screen or the image [in GIMP, etc]).

[macstevejb (macstevejb)]

menthurae: all I know is that certain icons do not have transparency with the theme I am using....icons that appear in the notification area, showing open progs such as: banshee vlc ksensors checkgmail mail-notification...see screenshot attached

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

me too, attached screenshot shows affected apps i didnt see mentioned here before:
audacious2, spotify (through wine, so i guess is a wine bug?)

[pytrisss (pytrisss)]

Audacious is all black around by default, its not affected OR it cant be
affected

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Martin Lindhe <email address hidden> wrote:

> me too, attached screenshot shows affected apps i didnt see mentioned here
> before:
> audacious2, spotify (through wine, so i guess is a wine bug?)
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "screen.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41246531/screen.png
>
> --
> Notification area icon wrongly rendered/has a black background (multiple
> apps)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in AllTray: Fix Released
> Status in aMSN: New
> Status in Banshee Music Player: New
> Status in Beagle Desktop Search: Unknown
> Status in a fast and powerful GTK+ based mail client: New
> Status in gmusicbrowser with now-playing support: New
> Status in Mail Notification: New
> Status in Pidgin: Fix Released
> Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.: New
> Status in “alltray” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “azureus” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “checkgmail” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “liferea” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how
> to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its
> notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that
> have a transparent background.
>
> I attach a screenshot.
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/alltray/+bug/403135/+subscribe
>

[pytrisss (pytrisss)]

Martin Lindhe: Audacious is all black around by default, so thats not a bug

[Keith Drummond (kd353)]

I have a similar issue with the banshee and firestarter icon backgrounds not matching the ambiance or radience themes, but being fine under the other themes. Also the font for the drop-down list for skype icon seems to colour itself the same colour as the theme, making it impossible to read until you hover your mouse pointer over each item in the list to highlight it. Again, this only is an issue with the default themes.

[Jonathan Lumb (jonolumb)]

I am having this problem in Lucid - grey icon background in a dark theme. Looks very unpolished. Screenshot attached.

[Hans van den Bogert (hbogert)]

can't reproduce this, my htpc is suffering from a gray networkmanager icon, yet on laptop and desktop it's fine, all running lucid up-to-date

[Lesley Harrington (laharrin)]

On 31 Mar 2010 22:51, "dlgandalf" <email address hidden> wrote:

can't reproduce this, my htpc is suffering from a gray networkmanager
icon, yet on laptop and desktop it's fine, all running lucid up-to-date

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[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

@laharrin: could you please add a comment to bug 551888 about the gray network-manager icon? Also, include what type of video card you have on the that bug.

[ttp (human-ttp)]

I have ubuntu 10.04 with all updates.
This bug occurs with next themes: Ambiance, New Wave, Radiance.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I actually think this is an issue between the theme/theme engine/gnome-panel. Testing with a theme that uses the Murrine engine from git, "elementary-remix" found at http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elementary+remix?content=110612, and
then expanding the panel to 36px so the background tiles, Banshee seems to have a perfectly transparent icon, as shown in this attachment.

As noted by someone else somewhere earlier in this bug report, everything used to work just fine with an older version of gnome-panel. Does anyone know what changed/went wrong?

[Vladimir Hidalgo (vlad88sv)]

Banshee & Filezilla being affected by this bug.
It I set the panel to full transparency every other icon changes accordingly except the two afore mentioned.

[Vladimir Hidalgo (vlad88sv)]

Confirmed by the attachment.

[Vish (vish)]

Confirming the task from the number of dups.

Also opening a gnome-panel task , since it affects several apps , and from comment #99 by Chow Loong Jin , it seems to be a regression

[Vish (vish)]

Elementary-remix theme.
banshee icon properly displayed > http://people.ubuntu.com/~hyperair/banshee-icon-ok.png
Vlc not displayed properly > http://imagebin.ca/popup/3msg58C.html

Banshee icon is probably displayed better with elementary remix , since banshee's implementation uses the argb colour map if available [as Chow Loong Jin mentioned] but not sure how it is working for him in Karmic ,
However , most of the banshee dups [ex: Bug #555418 ] here are from Lucid users , who have murrine latest from git and the light themes use the murrine engine.

[Alvaro Aleman (alvaroaleman)]

Today I discovered by coincidence the fact, that if you start at first Truecrypt and afterwards Banshee, the Truecrypt tray icon which is shown in the beginning with the wrong write background becomes its normal invisible background. it does not work the other way round.

I am using an up to date Lucid AMD 64 with Truecrypt 6.3a (from its website) and Banshee 1.6.0 (from the repository). The theme is the official Ambiance from the repository. Tell me if you need any furhter information.

[Alexey Brodkin (alexey-brodkin)]

I have the same problem in up to date Lucid in "gXNeur" with Ambiance/Radiance/Dust themes.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

From a large bug report on launchpad affecting many apps: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/403135?comments=all

Essentially, tray icons are being drawn with non-transparent backgrounds. This is usually from setting their (not always correct) color to bg_color rather than just transparent.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41246531/screen.png is a screenshot showing Spotify (and a few other, non-Wine apps) using the wrong background in the system tray.

[Alexey Brodkin (alexey-brodkin)]

This is a screenshot for GxNeur in Lucid

[Austin English (austinenglish)]

Dupe of bug 21597?

[dcaime (dcaime-sistema)]

please, get me out of this list!
thanks

2010/4/8 unggnu <email address hidden>:
> ** Also affects: wine (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided
>       Status: New
>
> --
> Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of MOTU Mono
> Team, which is a subscriber of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in AllTray: Fix Released
> Status in aMSN: Confirmed
> Status in Banshee Music Player: New
> Status in Beagle Desktop Search: Unknown
> Status in a fast and powerful GTK+ based mail client: Unknown
> Status in FileZilla FTP Client: Confirmed
> Status in firestarter: New
> Status in gmusicbrowser with now-playing support: New
> Status in Mail Notification: New
> Status in Pidgin: Fix Released
> Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.: New
> Status in “alltray” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “amsn” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “azureus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “checkgmail” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “claws-mail” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “liferea” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “wine” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that have a transparent background.
>
> I attach a screenshot.
>
> This bug is noticed when:
> a) Themes set a background image in the gtkrc
> b) If users set a custom image for the panel from Panel Properties > Background > Background Image
>
> ***This bug affects all themes , but has become easier to notice since the default light-themes use a background image.***
>
> Also , see , comment #99 , might be a regression in gnome-panel since Karmic release.
>
>
>
>
>

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[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

JDownloader (http://jdownloader.org) and FreeRapid Downloader (http://wordrider.net/freerapid) are affected by this bug, too. Their tray icons have an ugly white background color when using Ambiance theme (dark background panel).

[Vladimir Hidalgo (vlad88sv)]

Azureu's (Vuze) icon display properly in Lucid.

Version: 4.3.0.6-1

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

dcaime this is the right link for you! (or you can click on the upper-right corner, unsubscribe button near your name)

[Jack Deslippe (jdeslip)]

This doesn't seem to have been a problem with Banshee in Karmic (at least it was find for me). Can we just go back to using the Karmic banshee icon instead of the monochrome one in Lucid? Or is the problem with ambiance theme?

[cowanh00 (cowanh00)]

@Jack Deslippe

I get this problem with the old icon and the new one with Banshee on Lucid. I get the issue on several themes and with CheckGmail, Banshee, Wine based apps and VLC. Highly annoying! :-)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

@dcaime I didn't give you the link... :)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/403135/+subscribe

[Vitaliy-bugzilla (vitaliy-bugzilla)]

Wine & X doesn't support transparent colors. How do you suggest Wine use transparent color?

[David Stansby (dstansby-deactivatedaccount)]

This is still happening for me with banshee on lucid (although it has a white background as opposed to a black one)

[Thunderbird2k (thunderbird2k)]

We do support transparency in some cases when XRender is around when you use 32-bit DIBSections and using a concept patch I submitted yesterday we also allow it for 32-bit DDBs.

I think the main issue is that systray bar we draw uses a 24-bit X visual (so it has no alpha). If it were 32-bit and an icon with transparency was drawn into it (this would depend on the app!) it might work. Right now we use win32 calls to create the window and I don't think we want 32-bit windows, so if this is the issue I'm not sure if we can fix it at all.

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

This bug also exist in muine (with muine-plugin-trayicon)

[Thunderbird2k (thunderbird2k)]

Apparently this works using SetLayeredWindowAttributes on Windows and we seem to offer support for this in Wine. sync_window_opacity in winex11.drv explicitly has such code for the systray. That's perhaps a place to look.

[Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov)]

The latest version of the systemtray spec (http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-latest.html) documents how to do transparent icons: you have to use the ParentRelative window background.

[Alexandre Julliard (julliard)]

No, ParentRelative doesn't help (it's what we do already). We need the window to use an ARGB visual.

[Austin English (austinenglish)]

Does this also affect the system tray / alt-tabbing, which have no icons?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Because of bug #416294, VLC had to disable ARGB X11 visuals in Xlib. In my opinion, a ugly but nevertheless cosmetic issue in the tray icon is much less severe than the inability to play any video. Hence we will not re-enable ARGB visuals.

As a consequence, we cannot fix this bug. We would need a proper Qt4-x11 fix for #416294 (see http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-5464) first, which is not forthcoming.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

*** Bug 21597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Won't fix in Wine 1.0, but filed upstream for Wine1.2

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Could anybody explain me how to fix this on amsn?

thanks

[PatrickSCarrroll (patrickscarroll-hotmail)]

Still a problem with Open Office quickstarter in Lucid RC1.

[igi (igor-cali)]

Copied from Bug #554594

[Eric Baudach (cs-sniffer)]

The Bug will be released in next version.

[piratemurray (mez-pahlan)]

Same here for Banshee 1.6 from the PPAs Lucid Lynx AMD64.

[mp (m-p)]

Next version? Does that mean 10.10?

It is still present in the final, released 10.04 LTS

(Checked with VLC and OOo Quickstarter icon)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

I very much doubt it will be fixed even in 10.10 as far as VLC is concerned. As already explained, we need to disable transparency to work around a problem between Qt4 and XVideo. So there is simply no way we can make the icon's background transparent.

[Yahya (yahya-hamidaddin)]

I have the same problem with OpenOffice quickstarter icon in ubuntu 10.4

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

In VLC, this is a side effect of earlier LP#416294. The bug really is in Qt4.

[Michael Schwandt (webmicsch)]

Notofication area icons look weired in 'Transmission' and 'Banshee'. See Attachment.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sunday 02,May,2010 10:34 PM, Michael Schwandt wrote:
> Notofication area icons look weired in 'Transmission' and 'Banshee'. See
> Attachment.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47278926/Screenshot.png
>
Yes thank you, we don't need any more screenshots.

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

[hepaly (hurezi)]

Hi guys, The icon background bug has fixed in checkgmail v1.14pre-svn. It's working well for me.
Thx

[hepaly (hurezi)]

Hi guys, The icon background bug has fixed in checkgmail v1.14pre-svn. It's working for me.
Thx

[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

It works for the dark theme, but not the light one (at least here). In
checkgmail this is.

On 2 May 2010 21:09, hepaly <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi guys, The icon background bug has fixed in checkgmail v1.14pre-svn. It's working well for me.
> Thx
>
> ** Attachment added: "checkgmail.png"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47348477/checkgmail.png
>
> --
> Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Victor Jimenez (betabandido)]

I am using Ubuntu 10.04. In my case everything works fine except spotify (wine) and skype.

For spotify the background of the icon is wrong (light grey instead of dark grey).
For skype the icon looks good, but if I click on the icon, the characters in the menu cannot be read (except for the highlighted entry).

Both spotify and skype were working correctly in Ubuntu 9.10 for me.

I am attaching an screenshot.

Thanks!

[Alexey Brodkin (alexey-brodkin)]

betabandido, I guess you use Ambiance Ubuntu Gnome theme and Skype by default uses KDE theme.
So, to solve your issue with Skype go to Skype's "Options->General" and select "GTK+" style in "Choose style" dropdown menu.

[Victor Jimenez (betabandido)]

Thanks! It works!

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Bolick <email address hidden> wrote:
> betabandido, I guess you use Ambiance Ubuntu Gnome theme and Skype by default uses KDE theme.
> So, to solve your issue with Skype go to Skype's "Options->General" and select "GTK+" style  in "Choose style" dropdown menu.
>
> --
> Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background (multiple apps)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in AllTray: Fix Released
> Status in aMSN: Confirmed
> Status in Banshee Music Player: Confirmed
> Status in Beagle Desktop Search: Confirmed
> Status in a fast and powerful GTK+ based mail client: Unknown
> Status in Desktop Drapes wallpaper managment.: Fix Released
> Status in FileZilla FTP Client: Confirmed
> Status in firestarter: New
> Status in gmusicbrowser with now-playing support: New
> Status in Mail Notification: New
> Status in Pidgin: Fix Released
> Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.: New
> Status in VLC media player: Won't Fix
> Status in Wine: Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “alltray” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “amsn” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “azureus” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “checkgmail” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “claws-mail” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “filezilla” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “gajim” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “gxneur” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “wine” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
> Status in “wine1.2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that have a transparent background.
>
> I attach a screenshot.
>
> This bug is noticed when:
> a) Themes set a background image in the gtkrc
> b) If users set a custom image for the panel from Panel Properties > Background > Background Image
>
> ***This bug affects all themes , but has become easier to notice since the default light-themes use a background image.***
>
> Also , see , comment #99 , might be a regression in gnome-panel since Karmic release.
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/alltray/+bug/403135/+subscribe
>

[Tim Kosse (tim-kosse)]

All projects using the 2.8 version of the wxWidgets toolkit for the notification area icon are affected by this bug. The upcoming wxWidgets 3.0/2.9.x is not affected as it uses a different method to set the icon.

[Alexey Brodkin (alexey-brodkin)]

For me it seems like gXNeur version 0.9.8 appears with proper transparent background in notification area in both Ambiance and Radiance themes.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

opened a bug upstream for amsn

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2991127&group_id=54091&atid=472655

[David López (david-lopez-upct)]

Google Desktop icon suffers the same transparency problem

[skalka (skalka)]

Tray Icons take theyr background color from theme's window background color. Try to change to dark grey (#3C3B37) window background color and all icons will look fine.

[Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu)]

@skalka, would creating a new theme setting for panel background and have the tray icons get the background color from it help?

[bornagainpenguin (bornagainpenguin)]

@skalka -- Would desperately love a HOWTO describing how to accomplish this if you truly have managed to fix this bug!

To the rest of the Canonical "developers" instead of fixing REAL bugs like this one you guys want to fart around with #### windicators???

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

@bornagainpenguin: Please follow the Code of Conduct. Ranting won't fix this bug. Instead it will chase developers off.

[Alexander GQ Gerasiov (gq)]

Guys you are damnly fucking annoing.
What for did you merge all this shit together? To spam mailboxes?

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

@Alexander GQ: Just unsubscribe from this bug report.

Again, as Benjamin said, please follow the Code of Conduct.

[palimmo (palimmo)]

Same problem (tray icon trasparency) with:
VLC
Banshee
Mail Notification

in
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx - Default Theme

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Except for the tone, I would have to agree with the complaint that all those bugs shouldn't have been massively merged in the first place. We do not merge all segmentation faults, or all out-of-memory hogs, do we? Just because the symptoms are the same does not mean that each and every affected application suffers from the same actual bug cause. And in fact, they don't, at least not all of them.

So IMHO, those bug should have been merged per applications, or maybe per UI framework, not per the whole Ubuntu.

[hepaly (hurezi)]

After today vlc update, the transparency is working well.
Thx

[David López (david-lopez-upct)]

Sorry heplay, but that's not true for me. I've just update vlc from the repository and the problem still persists. Look at my image: amule, vlc, google-desktop and mail-notification wrong icons with the ambiance theme.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

@hepaly which version of vlc are you using? from which repository???

I just updated vlc and I cannot see this fix.
vlc 1.0.6-1ubuntu1.1 is my version

[hepaly (hurezi)]

Early was my joy. The notification area of vlc is wrong again. Today, I can't reproduce the working state. :( VLC version: 1.0.6. in default lucid repository.

[squiddy (squiddvault)]

squiddy is affected too.

same problem with freerapid downloader and jdownloader. also, vlc is updated to 1.0.6 from repo, but still problem occures.

[Twisted Lucidity (lucidlytwisted)]

@stalka - That's a good point, but it doesn't actually work I am afraid.
1. Whilst changing the windows background colour will cause the sys tray icons to update their background, they will still not match the actual theme ("Ambiance" has a gradient in the panels, and you can't match that with a simple colour change).
2. One's windows backgrounds will now be dark unreadable unless you change the text colour, and white text on a dark background may not be what one wants. So unless your panels happen to match your windows background, one'd still be goosed. This is why "Cleanlooks" appears to work. The panels and the window background happen to match, but the problem is not actually fixed.

One could switch to "Radiance" where the problem is less obvious I guess.

There was a "sort of" similar issue with Skype and menus, Options/General/Choose Style/"Desktop Settings"/Apply seems to fix that. I am wondering if there is a sort-of similar switch for Wine? I've dug around in gconf, but can't see anything obvious.

@Marcus Carlson - it might mask it I guess (I doubt you would get the gradients). How does one access the background setting for panels? I don't see it with the Theme customisation GUI which is the only way I know how to set things like that.

@Tim Kosse - Thanks for the heads-up. I am only affected by the Wine issue, but not being a dev I am not sure if Wine is dependent on wxWidgets. Nor do I want to risk installing wxWidgets 2.9 in case I futz my system up!

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

Also affects the QuickStart OpenOffice icon.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

This is fixed in Pidgin as it uses GtkStatusIcon instead of eggtrayicon in Lucid (bug #529375).

[Debian (debian-bugs-freemail)]

On Ubuntu 10.04 with its new default theme, the desktop panel is ugly with vlc ignoring theme, see illustration.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Following Problem with Skype: If I start Skype normally, the tray icon looks good, but if I use the workaround for the video problem:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 && skype

the icon gets ugly. I know, that this is not the best place to report Skype bugs, but I'm not sure whether it's a Skype bug...

[Setack (setack)]

Any plan to fix this? Is there any workarround? They really look terrible...

[bornagainpenguin (bornagainpenguin)]

@Benjamin Drung (#142)

LOL...your post would make sense if there were any developers to do anything! Ubuntu has become a joke and me increasingly bitter as Canonical continues to show they do not give a flying Shuttleworth about their users by the increasing myopia they show in their focus on breaking stuff (windicators! Seriously??) instead of fixing bugs like this one. These launchpad bugs are full of examples where users report bugs and they get ignored. Is it any wonder that users get increasingly cheesed off?

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

bornagainpenguin: do refrain from posting such pointless bashing.
this is a bug tracker, not a place for discussion of personal opinion about the project as a whole

[Aelilea (aelilea)]

Still present in 1.2rc1. Since the Lucid Lynx default theme now has a dark panel, this will be affecting many people.

[Aelilea (aelilea)]

Possibly related: When the panel is set to auto-hide, the Wine taskbar icons completely disappear from the panel when it is displayed (leaving only a background-coloured patch). Tooltips for these icons are no longer displayed either, while left- and right-click still work.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is not a gnome-panel one

[JeromeQc (jeromestpierre)]

Is "status: Confirmed → Invalid" is suppose to mean that it won't be fixed? It also leaves a white background with aMSN and Beagle Search since I upgraded to Lucid Lynx.

I see this is affecting 295 people and there is a huge bunch of subscribers. Should I hope this will be fixed anytime soon? I don't want to complain but I'd like to stress on the fact that it gives a very amateurish look.

Did anyone found a clean solution beside changing the theme or painting the the icon's background? Could any developer point out where they suspect that bug to be so that I can try to fix it if myself? Why did I only get it since I upgraded to Lucid Lynx? What changes were made to introduce this behavior?

Thanks.

[martincasc (martincasco)]

Well I can confirm that... I've tracking the bug of LVC and Banshee on it's own web developers.

Some of the application mention here, are not supported by Canonical, so fix this bugs it's must be done by apps developers.

If you track Banshee, You'll find that this bug it's reported since 2009. The reporter use Mandriva! And till now, is not fixes. I don't remember the URL, but the list of them it's in the top of this page.

On VLC the answer it's simple, it's wont be fix.. There is a problem with the alpha channel and can be fixed for now. Maybe latter (x day) they found a way for solve this.

Now, maybe banshee will be include in Ubuntu Netbook, if that happen, maybe our developers will help to improve the fix...

I thought the same that you JeromQc, but i found that the bug must be fix by the app developers. In the case I found, Banshee and VLC developers

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the task has been closed since the issue is not on this component, try using clearlooks or a different theme since light-themes seems to create some of those issues

[Johannes Hessellund (osos)]

Does all these affected apps use eggtrayicon instead of GtkStatusIcon?

Maybe someone should look for a patch for eggtrayicon. This patch could be easily included in all affected apps, until the devs move on to GtkStatusIcon.

[Justin (deadite81)]

Never filed a bug report, hope this is correct. I've been tracking this
and not seen this mentioned (that I can remember) so perhaps it will
shed some light.

I have solid backgrounds on my Firestarter, VLC, and Banshee icons. I
have since installed RGBA transparency on Ubuntu 10.04. Once in use the
three above tray icons were corrected in appearance - that is, they
gained a clear background - and all other icons were screwed up. The
icons that were fine, like Miro, Network Monitor Applet, Parcellite,
Dropbox, and so on all gained a dark gray background.

Since this was even uglier than before I blacklisted the notification
area from using rgba transparency and everything returned to "normal".

I'm no expert, but the before mentioned "alpha transparency issue"
appears to be simply a difference between Ubuntu's pseudo transparency
and the "real" transparency of rgba. I have found no way to make the
two work together in the notification area, it's one or the other I
guess, but it's a clear line to the prblem. Maybe in 10.10, when Ubuntu
will supposedly have rgba by default it will be fixed?

[unggnu (unggnu)]

I think it is interesting that KDE4 doesn't seem to have this problems again (GNOME Panel icons move apparently randomly on session start in some situations) at least with Wine and some other apps which have a problem with Gnome/GTK. And the icons are transparent around and I mean really transparent since the default theme has a transparent panel and not just a color gradient.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Justin Cope <email address hidden> wrote:
> Never filed a bug report, hope this is correct.  I've been tracking this
> and not seen this mentioned (that I can remember) so perhaps it will
> shed some light.
>
> I have solid backgrounds on my Firestarter, VLC, and Banshee icons.  I
> have since installed RGBA transparency on Ubuntu 10.04.  Once in use the
> three above tray icons were corrected in appearance - that is, they
> gained a clear background - and all other icons were screwed up.  The
> icons that were fine, like Miro, Network Monitor Applet, Parcellite,
> Dropbox, and so on all gained a dark gray background.
>
> Since this was even uglier than before I blacklisted the notification
> area from using rgba transparency and everything returned to "normal".
>
> I'm no expert, but the before mentioned "alpha transparency issue"
> appears to be simply a difference between Ubuntu's pseudo transparency
> and the "real" transparency of rgba.  I have found no way to make the
> two work together in the notification area, it's one or the other I
> guess, but it's a clear line to the prblem.  Maybe in 10.10, when Ubuntu
> will supposedly have rgba by default it will be fixed?

I'm interested to know more about this. What do you mean by "installed
RGBA transparency on Ubuntu 10.04"? This can probably shed some light
on exactly what is going on, and exactly what needs to be done to fix
this issue.

--
Chow Loong Jin

[Justin (deadite81)]

Chow Loong Jin <https://launchpad.net/%7Ehyperair> wrote:

"I'm interested to know more about this. What do you mean by "installed
RGBA transparency on Ubuntu 10.04"? This can probably shed some light
on exactly what is going on, and exactly what needs to be done to fix
this issue."

This could be better explained on the Ubuntu wiki here
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/RgbaGtkWithPPA/>.
Here
<http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/enable-rgba-transparency-in-ubuntu-910.html>
is installation instructions.

Here <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4367247/rgba-enabled.png> is a screenshot
of my desktop running rgba (notice the Firestarter icon is wrong).

Please note that this is NOT a solution to this bug and this software is
very temperamental. If you install it expect lots of issue fixing.

Also, since my last post I can only reproduce the Banshee icon being
fixed, not the vlc or Firestarter icons. I have only tried once more,
as I have to log in and out and whatnot. However, vlc is blacklisted
from using rgba, Banshee and Firestarter are not. There are lots of
variables at work here and I am not a developer. I can confirm that
upon first install of rgba transparency all three afore mentioned icons
were corrected. Now, a week or so later, with much configuration
editing and theme tweaking, only the Banshee icon is displayed correctly.

What this has to do with this bug I don't know specifically, but if I
had to guess, it would be that gnome-panel simply doesn't accept
whatever display standards these programs use for their tray icons by
default. Why is this so hard to fix? You got me, but these are
commonly used programs and this problem has been persistent through the
two versions of Ubuntu I've used, including this "LTS" offering. Seems
ridiculous to me.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

How to make the tray icon transparent depends on the theme. If the tray icon area uses a uniform background color, then the tray icon background can simply be filled with the same color. That is what happens with "old" desktop themes, and works in pretty much any application.

However, if the tray icon area background is _not_ uniform, then composition is required, so that the icons are really transparent. To that end, applications must create an X window for they tray icon, that uses the ARGB X11 visual. Unfortunately, some applications hence fail to do that. Instead, they use the old method and fill the background of their tray icon with an uniform background color.

I know at least VLC and Skype fall in this category. In both cases, ARGB visuals are disabled due to complications with video rendering, namely the XVideo extension cannot be used with ARGB visuals. In principle, this is not an issue: XVideo is used for the main application video rendering window, not for the tray icon window. X11 allows an application to use different visuals for different windows. However, to my knowledge, the Qt4 GUI library does not expose this feature of X11, and hence ARGB has to be disabled not just for the video widget, but for all widgets including the tray icon.

[VastOne (vastone)]

I just wanted to add that when I start Guayadeque Music Player, it has this same issue of a non transparent icon in the system tray. But when I start VLC, which is also non transparent and close it, Guayadeque's Icon is then perfectly transparent. Hopefully this helps...

[KruyKaze (kruykaze)]

Same here!

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:33 PM, VastOne <email address hidden> wrote:

> I just wanted to add that when I start Guayadeque Music Player, it has
> this same issue of a non transparent icon in the system tray. But when
> I start VLC, which is also non transparent and close it, Guayadeque's
> Icon is then perfectly transparent. Hopefully this helps...
>
> --
> Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background
> (multiple apps)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in AllTray: Fix Released
> Status in aMSN: Confirmed
> Status in AMule: New
> Status in Banshee Music Player: Confirmed
> Status in Beagle Desktop Search: Confirmed
> Status in a fast and powerful GTK+ based mail client: Unknown
> Status in Desktop Drapes wallpaper managment.: Fix Released
> Status in FileZilla FTP Client: Confirmed
> Status in firestarter: New
> Status in gmusicbrowser with now-playing support: New
> Status in Mail Notification: Confirmed
> Status in Pidgin: Fix Released
> Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.: New
> Status in VLC media player: Won't Fix
> Status in Wine: Confirmed
> Status in wxWidgets crossplatform GUI toolkit: New
> Status in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “alltray” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “amsn” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “azureus” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “checkgmail” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “claws-mail” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “filezilla” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “gajim” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “gxneur” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “wine” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
> Status in “wine1.2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how
> to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its
> notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that
> have a transparent background.
>
> I attach a screenshot.
>
> This bug is noticed when:
> a) Themes set a background image in the gtkrc
> b) If users set a custom image for the panel from Panel Properties >
> Background > Background Image
>
> ***This bug affects all themes , but has become easier to notice since the
> default light-themes use a background image.***
>
> Also , see , comment #99 , might be a regression in gnome-panel since
> Karmic release.
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/alltray/+bug/403135/+subscribe
>

[VPablo (villumar)]

checkgmail solved this bug. Please run:
$ sudo checkgmail -update-manager
And answer "Y" for updating.

[VPablo (villumar)]

Here you are the confirmation for this fix on checkgmail.

[Konstantinos Natsakis (knatsakis)]

I believe this bug is somehow related to a change in gnome-panel_1:2.29.5.1-0ubuntu1 when the building of applets as shared libraries was deactivated (they are now build as standalone executables)

Changelog: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.30.0-0ubuntu1/changelog
* debian/rules:
    - don't build in process applets during the unstable cycle so crash issues
      should be easier to debug and reported on the corresponding binary

It seems to me that due to this change, the notification area icons get the background of the program's main window instead of the panel's background.

Compiling gnome-panel with '--with-in-process-applets=notification-area' in debian/rules (and no other changes), fixes this bug for me.

I have uploaded modified gnome-panel packages to my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa in case others want to try this (you need gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data; killall bonobo-activation-server and gnome-panel after installation)

[Danny Wood (danwood76)]

@ Konstantinos Natsakis

The package in your PPA fixes it on my machine for both wine and VLC which were the only apps I saw this in.
Thanks!

[Eelco Voerman (eelcovoerman)]

Thanks Konstantinos! this fixed the Spotify icon for me.

2010/6/5 Konstantinos Natsakis <email address hidden>

> I believe this bug is somehow related to a change in gnome-
> panel_1:2.29.5.1-0ubuntu1 when the building of applets as shared
> libraries was deactivated (they are now build as standalone executables)
>
> Changelog:
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.30.0-0ubuntu1/changelog
> * debian/rules:
> - don't build in process applets during the unstable cycle so crash
> issues
> should be easier to debug and reported on the corresponding binary
>
> It seems to me that due to this change, the notification area icons get
> the background of the program's main window instead of the panel's
> background.
>
> Compiling gnome-panel with '--with-in-process-applets=notification-area'
> in debian/rules (and no other changes), fixes this bug for me.
>
> I have uploaded modified gnome-panel packages to my PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa in case others want to try
> this (you need gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data; killall bonobo-
> activation-server and gnome-panel after installation)
>
> --
> Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background
> (multiple apps)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403135
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in AllTray: Fix Released
> Status in aMSN: Confirmed
> Status in AMule: New
> Status in Banshee Music Player: Confirmed
> Status in Beagle Desktop Search: Confirmed
> Status in a fast and powerful GTK+ based mail client: Unknown
> Status in Desktop Drapes wallpaper managment.: Fix Released
> Status in FileZilla FTP Client: Confirmed
> Status in firestarter: New
> Status in gmusicbrowser with now-playing support: New
> Status in Mail Notification: Confirmed
> Status in Pidgin: Fix Released
> Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.: New
> Status in VLC media player: Fix Released
> Status in Wine: Confirmed
> Status in wxWidgets crossplatform GUI toolkit: New
> Status in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “alltray” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “amsn” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “azureus” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “checkgmail” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “claws-mail” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “filezilla” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “gajim” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “gxneur” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “vlc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “wine” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
> Status in “wine1.2” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> The following bug may possibly depend on my setup, if so just tell me how
> to check this. I am using banshee 1.4.3-5 (in ubuntu karmic) and its
> notification area icon has a black background, unlike other applets that
> have a transparent background.
>
> I attach a screenshot.
>
>...

[Steven Nichols (steven.nichols)]

@ Konstantinos

Your PPA fixes the Banshee, VLC and TrueCrypt icons. Thank you!

[Cedric Schieli (cschieli)]

@VPablo : It is fixed upstream, so "sudo checkmgail -update" is a good workaround, but one can't say it is fixed in checkgmail's ubuntu package.

[hepaly (hurezi)]

@ Konstantinos Natsakis

Thanks your PPA. The icons of VLC, firestarter and skype (start with a workaround for video bug:export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 && skype) are working well, after gnome-panel update.

[markb (mark-blakeney)]

@ Konstantinos, thank you. This bug was 100% reproducible, e.g on all wxwidgets based apps, on both my laptop and pc. Applying the updates from your ppa fixes this bug completely for all these apps.

[Nick B. (futurepilot)]

On 06/05/2010 11:49 AM, Konstantinos Natsakis wrote:
> I believe this bug is somehow related to a change in gnome-
> panel_1:2.29.5.1-0ubuntu1 when the building of applets as shared
> libraries was deactivated (they are now build as standalone executables)
>
> Changelog: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.30.0-0ubuntu1/changelog
> * debian/rules:
> - don't build in process applets during the unstable cycle so crash issues
> should be easier to debug and reported on the corresponding binary
>
> It seems to me that due to this change, the notification area icons get
> the background of the program's main window instead of the panel's
> background.
>
> Compiling gnome-panel with '--with-in-process-applets=notification-area'
> in debian/rules (and no other changes), fixes this bug for me.
>
> I have uploaded modified gnome-panel packages to my PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa in case others want to try
> this (you need gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data; killall bonobo-
> activation-server and gnome-panel after installation)
>
>
Actually using --with-in-process-applets=notification-area isn't
necessary. In previous releases it's been compiled with
--with-in-process-applets=all but this line has been commented out in
Lucid. Simply uncommenting it and recompiling is enough to fix it.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:53:13 -0000
"Nick B." <email address hidden> wrote:

> On 06/05/2010 11:49 AM, Konstantinos Natsakis wrote:
> > I believe this bug is somehow related to a change in gnome-
> > panel_1:2.29.5.1-0ubuntu1 when the building of applets as shared
> > libraries was deactivated (they are now build as standalone executables)
> >
> > Changelog:
> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.30.0-0ubuntu1/changelog
> > * debian/rules:
> > - don't build in process applets during the unstable cycle so crash
> > issues should be easier to debug and reported on the corresponding binary
> >
> > It seems to me that due to this change, the notification area icons get
> > the background of the program's main window instead of the panel's
> > background.
> >
> > Compiling gnome-panel with '--with-in-process-applets=notification-area'
> > in debian/rules (and no other changes), fixes this bug for me.
> >
> > I have uploaded modified gnome-panel packages to my PPA:
> > https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa in case others want to try
> > this (you need gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data; killall bonobo-
> > activation-server and gnome-panel after installation)
> >
> >
> Actually using --with-in-process-applets=notification-area isn't
> necessary. In previous releases it's been compiled with
> --with-in-process-applets=all but this line has been commented out in
> Lucid. Simply uncommenting it and recompiling is enough to fix it.
>

I think this points at this bug being solely a gnome-panel issue, so perhaps we
should close of all the other tasks in this bug report, and reopen the
gnome-panel task?

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

[Miroslav Hadzhiev (xtigyro)]

The fix is not released for VLC in Lucid.
However, I've tested VLC under Maverick Alpha 1 and there the problem is fixed.

[Vish (vish)]

Re-opening gnome-panel task in light of recent comments:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/403135/comments/175
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/403135/comments/182

And the problem being fixed with "Simply uncommenting --with-in-process-applets=all , this line has been commented out in
Lucid and recompiling is enough to fix the bug"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

changing the build option would have other effects, it would means gnome-panel would be less robust to bugs in those components, some softwares seem to be working so that's not the only issue there

[David Morley (d-morlo)]

Fixed upstream in VLC http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3581

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Not fixed in UBUNTU VLC.

[Tomasz Magulski (magul)]

Hi,

I have similar issue with Ubuntu 10.04 (clean installation) and Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Remix (upgraded from 9.10) that (default theme for Gnome for this release is with dark grey panels) the icon of Banshee has white backgroud and icon itself is light grey, without blue note.

[markb (mark-blakeney)]

@ Konstantinos, ubuntu updated gnome-panel to 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu2 today which has overwritten your fixed ppa package. So this bug has returned.

[Konstantinos Natsakis (knatsakis)]

@ markb, I uploaded a new version (1:2.30.0-0ubuntu3~ppa1) last night. Thanks for letting me know.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

(In reply to comment #11)

That might be bug 22487.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

But then again it might be a different bug.

[Andypiper (andypiper)]

Agreed this is frustrating and damages the look and integration of the desktop. With the recent steps forward in wine now recognising font smoothing set in FontConfig it would be nice to smooth out a few more of these rough edges to make the fit even better.

[Dan Glover (dangloverenator)]

Also affects TweetDeck, presumably other Adobe AIR applications.

[Adnan Quaium (adnan.quaium)]

Banshee, VLC and Skype is affected in Lucid also.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50260295/Screenshot.png

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

Evolution in Alltray is also affected (Lucid).

[Austin English (austinenglish)]

*** Bug 23191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[JasonPorter (jasonporter)]

Is there any confirmation on which other dock applet libraries are affected?

Earlier it was mentioned that GtkStatusIcon doesn't exhibit this behavior, the specifics of which I don't fully grasp if it is actually *only* a gnome-panel issue as speculated here.

I can confirm though, that eggtrayicon and wxTaskBarIcon are both affected. Any others?

The PPA from Konstantinos is nice, but if it is only a gnome-panel problem and the Ubuntu package maintainers are rolling out updates for this package on an ongoing basis, are they going to adopt the fix?

[Imre Péntek (pentek-imre)]

aMSN does the same thing for me. Is this the right place to report it, or should I report a separate bug for this?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

This is the right bug to report it, but as said in the top of the page amsn is already marked as affected...

So Imre you should only wait for developers make the code change!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.1.0-1ubuntu1

---------------
vlc (1.1.0-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - build and install the libx264 plugin
    - add Xb-Npp header to vlc package
    - Add apport hook to include more vlc dependencies in bug reports
  * Drop xulrunner patches.
  * Drop 502_xulrunner_191.diff.

vlc (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Christophe Mutricy ]
  * New upstream version 1.1.0 (Closes: #586760, LP: #597108)
    * Fixes many bugs (Closes: #572151, #578917, #526088, #572914, #503377;
      LP: #206152, #261001, #281478, #282215, #282966, #283379, #283855,
      #285681, #287263, #328064, #328861, #346631, #356006, #356908, #357595,
      #358461, #362793, #368599, #375854, #380077, #383443, #403135, #403657,
      #403802, #414069, #415396, #416294, #419915, #422797, #425975, #427247,
      #435225, #439271, #442038, #444795, #453928, #459515, #461443, #465687,
      #466418, #476478, #482440, #491151, #491601, #514915, #517329, #517496,
      #537627, #539406, #542293, #549029, #549902, #550468, #550485, #550599,
      #551482, #553503, #554277, #556440, #560167, #564964, #566347, #568750,
      #570666, #582785, #584009, #586692, #587528)
    * SONAME changes
    * Update symbols files
    * Refresh patches and remove the ones merged upstream
  * rules:
    * Disable projectm and sqlite
    * Upstream Makefile install icons at the good place, simplify debian/rules
    * Specify where to install solids files
    * Install the optim only if present
    * Make sure we have useful build log
  * *.install: reflect new modules path and add new files
  * Add a trigger to generate the modules' cache as root.
  * Update the doc which get installed
  * control:
    * Prefer a recent libdvbpsi
    * add lua5.1 to have luac
    * Add more build-dep: xcb*, dirac, dc1394
  * Patch to allow compilation with xul 1.9.1
  * Remove unneeded -V for dh_makeshlibs
  * Use configure option instead of patching
  * Use dh_bugfiles and update the bug control file
  * Don't advertise deprecated package in vlc's manpage
  * Add some news about lua and zvbi
  * Move the luahttp's .hosts to /etc/vlc

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format.
  * Disable portaudio module.
  * Update symbols files.
  * Cleanup clean rule and other parts of debian/rules.
  * Remove default values from git-buildpackage config.
  * Change installation of man pages.
  * Remove unused ${shlibs:Depends}.
  * Sort Build-Depends and Depends.
  * Remove unused libhal-dev from Build-Depends (Closes: #580407).
  * Remove unused --enable-release configure flag.
  * Remove unused Build-Depends libid3tag0-dev, libsysfs-dev, and libxv-dev.
  * Provide VBI teletext plugin (Closes: #563873) - thanks to László
    Benedek <email address hidden> for the patch.
  * Enable atmo, fluidsynth (separate package), libproxy (Closes: #532110),
    kate (Closes: #563464), and mtp plugin.
  * Comment disabled features.
  * Explicitly enable or disable features.
  * Vcs-Browser link to summary page.
  * Convert patch header to DEP-3 and add DEP-3 to 502_xulrunner_191.diff.
  * Add myself to Uploaders.
  * ...

[Chris Allan (atomicblue)]

Created an attachment (id=36932)
Ubuntu 10.04 notification area

Notification area toolbar in Ubuntu 10.04 has a white background when the default Ambiance theme is used. Other themes have this same issue.

Please refer to the following Launchpad bug as it affects multiple apps:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/403135

$ dpkg -s uim-anthy
Package: uim-anthy
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 252
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: uim
Version: 1:1.5.7-2ubuntu1
Depends: libanthy0 (>= 9100h), libc6 (>= 2.1.3), libgcroots0, libuim6, uim-utils (>= 1:1.5.7-2ubuntu1), uim-common (>= 1:1.5.7-2ubuntu1), anthy
Conflicts: uim-common (<= 1:1.2.1-9)
Description: Anthy plugin for uim
 uim is a input method module library supporting various languages, which
 become a frontend for Anthy, SKK, Canna, T-Code, TUT-Code, Pinyin(Chinese
 input method), Hangul(Korean input method), IPA(International Phonetic
 Alphabet) and etc.... Most of the functions are implemented with Scheme,
 so it's very simple and flexible.
 .
 This package contains Anthy plugin for uim.
Original-Maintainer: Kiwamu Okabe <email address hidden>

$ dpkg -s uim-gtk2.0
Package: uim-gtk2.0
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 748
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: uim
Version: 1:1.5.7-2ubuntu1
Replaces: libuim-gtk2.0, libuim0-gtk
Depends: gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0, libanthy0 (>= 9100h), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcanna1g (>= 3.7p3), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcroots0, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libuim6, libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), uim-utils (>= 1:1.5.7-2ubuntu1), uim-common (>= 1:1.5.7-2ubuntu1)
Conflicts: libuim-gtk2.0, libuim0-gtk
Description: GTK+2.x immodule for uim
 uim is a input method module library supporting various languages, which
 become a frontend for Anthy, SKK, Canna, T-Code, TUT-Code, Pinyin(Chinese
 input method), Hangul(Korean input method), IPA(International Phonetic
 Alphabet) and etc.... Most of the functions are implemented with Scheme,
 so it's very simple and flexible.
 .
 This package contains a input method module on GTK+2.0.
Original-Maintainer: Kiwamu Okabe <email address hidden>

[Ek-kato (ek-kato)]

OK. I'll fix this in the next release of uim. For a workaround at the moment, please use gnome applet version of uim-toolbar instaed of systray version.

[Ek-kato (ek-kato)]

Fixed in r6499 trunk.
And the title of this bug was modified appropriately.

[Chris Allan (atomicblue)]

UIM -- Fixed in r6499 trunk.

[markb (mark-blakeney)]

@ Konstantinos, Ubuntu updated gnome-panel to 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu0.2 a few days ago which has overwritten your last fixed ppa package 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu0.2~ppa1. So this bug has returned until you provide another update.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Setting the miscellaneous, unassigned "Ubuntu" entry to invalid.

[Boris Dalstein (dalboris)]

In my case :
Lucid Lynx 32bits, default theme, nVidia card with Xinerama enabled : all (as far as I know) apps in the notification-area have a white background. (If Xinerama is disabled, the bug disappear in my configuration...)

I've tried to fix this by modifying the source code of gnome-panel (see attachment) : I commented out things in applets>notification-area>na-tray-child.c>na_tray_child_realize(GtkWidget *widget) in order to always use the default "alpha drawing mode" (it is said that "the icon will sit on top of an ugly gray box"). This worked for me, and for other people. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1427968&page=5 post #48 (I'm seb_42) for more information.

However, in my configuration, this fix seems only to work for the default theme. So it's clearly not a clean solution, but I thought I had to post my "modifications" here, in case it can help.

[Boris Dalstein (dalboris)]

(and sorry if the file I added as a "patch" isn't in the expected form : it contain all the .c file. I'm not very used to launchpad/debugging tools)

[Boris Dalstein (dalboris)]

Le 10 août 2010 08:46, "Bug Watch Updater" <email address hidden> a
écrit :

** Changed in: beagle
      Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

** Changed in: banshee
      Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

--
Notification area icon wrongly rendered/uses bg_color as a background
(multiple apps)
https://b...
Status in Banshee Music Player: Fix Released
Status in Beagle Desktop Search: Fix Released

Status in a fast and powerful GTK+ based mail client: Unknown
Status in Desktop Drapes wallpaper man...

[Renato D'Arrigo (renatodarrigo)]

Konstantinos Natsakis: the fix from your ppa worked flawlessly here! Thank you very much!

Can't this fix be included on the main package?

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

in both pics see left top side notifications. skype and wifi.

[yuane (yuane)]

This bug affects StarDic and Twhirl

[Götz Christ (g-christ)]

Is this wxwidgets bug related? http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/4810#comment:5

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

Under the Maverick Meerkat Release Candidate this bug still affects evolution in alltray.

[Pander (pander)]

On Maverick this still a bug for amsn.

[lumbricus (lumbricus)]

A fast workaround: use a theme were both colors are the same (eg. Dust Sand) or costumize the colors of an existing theme.

[Konstantinos Natsakis (knatsakis)]

Just to inform Maverick users,

I have built a package for Maverick following the same procedure described in comment #187 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/403135/comments/187) and uploaded it to my PPA.

[VPablo (villumar)]

@Konstantinos: not working for me, see the attachment.

[igi (igor-cali)]

Drapes is still affected by this bug.

[Gerson "fserve" Barreiros (fserve)]

@Konstantinos: working for me, maverick 10.10 with "A-New-Hope-TESB" theme. Thanks.

[lumbricus (lumbricus)]

Konstantis' packages from his PPA solve the problem for me too (Maverick 10.10).

[omgjoz (omgjoz)]

@Konstantinos Natsakis: the packages from your PPA resolved my issues as well. I was having a similar problem with the Grooveshark Desktop application which uses Adobe AIR. Thanks!

Ubuntu 10.10

[markb (mark-blakeney)]

@Konstantinos I have been using your ppa packages for ages to fix this bug on Lucid. Did a clean install to Maverick this week and shocked to see this bug still exists. However applying your ppa does not fix this bug on Maverick for me.

The ubuntu development process is failing. This bug and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/160311 are good examples.

[Christianus Pistorius (carbeck)]

Also affects uim-toolbar-gtk-systray in Ubuntu 10.10 with Gnome 2.32.0

[Vytautas (vytautasjc)]

Somehow the icons that appear with non-transparent backgrounds are using window colors instead of panel background. Same bug exists in xfce (last checked 4.8). You may fix that by using a theme which panel is of the same color as windows. In my opinion, that's nonsense and I've given up and started using awn as my panel and tint2 (on netbook). Both work nicely. So if anyone could look into gnome panel code and make sure it doesn't "borrow" window colors and uses it's own instead would be appreciated by all gnome users :)

[Vytautas (vytautasjc)]

Note #2: Actually it does persist even in awn, but it somehow manages to crop it. To reproduce: resize the dock while tray icon is present (window color border should appear around it). Tested with truecrypt which tray icon has the very same problem.

[Colin Leroy-Mira (colin-colino)]

Fixed since Nov 2010.

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

Maybe its possible to make bg_color set as ignored to show
Like to make it transparent where it is and dont make that color to exist in logos area what needs to be rendered/viewed/showed for user

[Giuseppe Scarciglia (gscarcio)]

I updated to banshee 2.0 today. Confirm, same bug affects it in Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome 2.30.2.

[Patrick Meidl (patrick-pantheon)]

upgraded to 11.04 beta2 yesterday and the bug is still there for mail-notification.

@Konstantinos Natsakis: would it be possible to provide a PPA for natty (the one for maverick solved the problem nicely)?

[Konstantinos Natsakis (knatsakis)]

@Patrick Meidl
The fix I applied for the previous releases, does not seem to work for Natty.

I have neither the time nor the desire to research with this is the case, so I will not provide patched versions of gnome-panel for Natty or any following releases..

[Patrick Meidl (patrick-pantheon)]

@Konstantinos Natsakis: thanks for the info. so let's hope that there will be an upstream fix.

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

Hmmm

Bummer, this is an irritating bug

[Mark S. (invalidopcode)]

Created an attachment (id=35808)
A screengrab of the issue

I can confirm this is an issue on Arch Linux running KDE 4.7.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

[Adrien Cunin (adri2000)]

Is filezilla actually (still) affected by this bug ?

[jgratero (jgratero)]

I've tried so far VLC and Skype on Lubuntu 12.04... Both icons present the same problem...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Caleb Hearon (laleb)]

+1

It's really nice that Wine can integrate like this, and having the icons look perfect would make a big difference.

I swear this worked in a previous version...

[relgames (relgames)]

Hello, this bug still affects me. Ubuntu 12.04, Nvidia with Xinerama
http://askubuntu.com/questions/171097/ubuntu-12-04-gnome-classic-white-background-for-systray-icons

[relgames (relgames)]

Can somebody reopen this issue? It is still in Ubuntu 12.04

[relgames (relgames)]

Additional details: managed to solve it by switching from Xinerama to Nvidia TwinView

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi anyone affected.
Could you please try the new amsn 0.98.9-1 from my ppa [1]?
this version is available for precise and quantal and it contains so many bug fixes.
If this doesn't fix the problem set the status back to new
[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/amsn

[Djelinski1 (djelinski1)]

transparent background works for me (kubuntu 11.10). Fixed?

[Alexandre Julliard (julliard)]

Not yet, cf. comment 6.

[Alexandre Julliard (julliard)]

Fixed by e03b8e1a1d1a553dbfcb20dcfccf92d4c17eade6.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Thanks Alexandre, I repost the url of the commit
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/e03b8e1a1d1a553dbfcb20dcfccf92d4c17eade6

[Alexandre Julliard (julliard)]

Closing bugs fixed in 1.5.15.

[Focht (focht)]

*** Bug 24991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Pander (pander)]

This bug from 2009 relates to 32 projects and is therefore listed 32 times in bug overviews.So, if possible, please set for your project this to either won't fix or invalid or work towards fix released and close it here. Thanks