indicator-sensors does not provide symbolic "light-themes" panel icons

[Paul Sladen]

Indicator sensor currently looks out of place within the Panel. Ideally suitable monochrome icons would be provided for 'ubuntu-mono-light' and 'ubuntu-mono-dark'. Installed to:

 /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-{light,dark}/status/22/indicator-sensors-*

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

I agree this would be great but I am no artist so I won't be able to do it myself - but if anyone wants to contribute some I'll gladly take them.

[Hanine HAMZIOUI (hanynowsky)]

Indeed, The default systray icons look incoherent with the rest of panel icons.

So Actually, we need three icons. Don't we?

- One for low temperature (blue)
- One for cool temperature (green)
- One for hot/critical temperature (red).

I might work on these icons and test them locally using Inkscape or Gimp.
The question is since they are monochrome icons, should we keep the colors?
In my humble opinion, we should create colorless icons and append colored icons in notifications rather.

I just hope the default icons are not hardcoded like VLC does, so I could test.

[Zsolt Lauter (lauterzsolti)]

A "no icons" option wolud be great if you ask me. :) I can't live without indicator-sensors but the icons and colours were quite annoying on my completely monochrome indicator panel so i replaced the icons with 1px wide transparent PNGs. There is already a label beside the temperature and that's just enough.

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

The recently released version (0.2) of indicator-sensors allows you to disable the icons - you can get it from the PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) - so that should solve at least that part of the problem.

[Zsolt Lauter (lauterzsolti)]

Thank you! It works like a charm. :) Although I get an alert when it starts even if alarms are disabled.

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

@Zsolt - Hmm that's weird - can you file a separate bug for that then and include the contents of the alert, as well as the contents of the file ~/.config/indicator-sensors/sensors - thanks.

[Zsolt Lauter (lauterzsolti)]

@Alex: OK. I filed Bug #1009881.

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

New icons added in https://github.com/alexmurray/indicator-sensors/commit/c712ee6a96ce43d77dad99bcf024db198e63564d

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

0.8 released in daily and release PPA - closing this as fix released.

[davidr (davaweb)]

I don't like the new icons I'm afraid - in fallback/flashback the 'writing' is impossible to see.

I did my own (essentially from a previous coloured version) and placed them in ~/.cache/indicator-sensors/icons but I soon learnt that these get overwritten with the new ones.

So I also replaced the ones in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/status and /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/devices.

But the ones in ~/.cache/indicator-sensors/icons still get overwritten.

So, please where are they getting overwritten from?

Many thanks