battery-*-symbolic icon not properly rendered in the panel

[Sam Tate]

Although indicator-power seems to use battery-*-symbolic icons, it stretches the icon out and/or crops it instead of using it at the intended 16px height. Creating a 22px -symbolic icon results in it still being stretched outside the drawn area making it not possible to correctly supply a -symbolic icon here.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Speaking of the power indicator, we really need to decide on https://blueprints.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+spec/indicator-strategy.

That may affect this, especially if we're remaking an indicator or something.

[Paweł Pacana (pawelpacana)]

This is how battery renders in my indicator-power: http://yfrog.com/njzaznaczenie004p

[Paweł Pacana (pawelpacana)]

Another screenshot for completness: http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/5458/zaznaczenie007.png

This is Ubuntu 11.10 with classic Gnome session and elementary-icon-theme 3.0-0~r906+pkg19~oneiric1.

[Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)]

I have the same problem using revision 906.

http://i.imgur.com/vLAoz.png

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

I am affected by this too, and I recall discussing it with Dan. Something about GNOME 3 not using proper symbolic icons or something. Might be something we want to explicitly edge-case?

Marking as confirmed -- feel free to change it.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

This is partially an elementary bug because I'm currently borrowing GNOME's battery icons, but it's mostly an indicator-power bug because it's stretching and/or cropping the icon for some unknown reason.

[Lucazade (lucazade)]

is this bug going to be fixed??!

[Brendan William (bwilliam)]

This bug has now been fixed with the latest elementary icon set (ppa:elementary-os/daily)

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

No this bug has not been fixed. It has been worked around by not using symbolic battery icons in elementary. The problem still persists.

[Brendan William (bwilliam)]

I misunderstood the bug XD. indicator-power stretches out wingpael because of this, taking up space.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

indicator-power requests icons of size GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR instead of GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU. If I change this, the gnome icon theme looks correct, but the battery icons from ubuntu-mono-dark become tiny.

Daniel, you seem to be the one who last touched the battery icons in ubuntu-mono-dark. Do you know what I need to change in there to make the icons appear at the right size? I'm hesitant to include the fix to indicator-power in precise if it breaks the default icon set.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

Cimi figured it out: the svg files in ubuntu-mono-* contain a padding around the icons that is too large.

My indicator-power patch also isn't correct: the panel uses a different icon size alltogether, which is pulled from libindicator. Libindicator doesn't support multiple icon name backups, which are needed by the power panel (it looks for all sorts of icons).

Together with the changes necessary for the icons, this is just too invasive a change for this late in the cycle. So, this is not going to be fixed in precise, but shortly after. Sorry.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

larsu, is this still an issue in >= 12.10?

[982c80311320c1b (alexander-wilms)]

It is, at least for me.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

Charles, yes it is.

[Atom Stark (atomstark)]

Still unsolved after 2 years ...

[Francisco Cribari (cribari)]

Stil lunresolved?

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

This looks fixed for me, have you tested 14.04?

[Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net)]

seems to be fixed in 14.04