Notifications area not allowing for oversized icons

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Ubuntu-Mate 17.10 upgraded from 17.04 and using MATE 18 and Notifications Area 1.18.4

See attached image, showing the Keyboard Selection icon , which is a double-wide one, overlapping and hiding part of the Network Manager icon. Thus hiding the Locked/VPN part of the nm icon.

It may be that the Notifications area legitimately does not support wide icons, as it would not expect to display any.

I suspect underlying problem is that the Notifications area is usurping/claiming as its own normal panel icons! Both the Keyboard Selection and Display properties icons are ones that I added to the panel (not to the Notifications area), but which over time have been 'grabbed' by the Notifications area.

[ Would be quite happy to have as normal panel icons, but can see no way to get them back. Move, etc., options not available. ]

I use a laptop with external monitor which is set as Primary when attached, so possibly moving panel from 1 screen to the other is cause for the Notification Area's icon acquisition behaviour?

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Can you reproduce this bug with newer version of Ubuntu MATE?

[layingback (laying-back)]

No. It was fixed. 20.04 from memory.

On August 1, 2021 11:23:02 AM UTC, Norbert <email address hidden> wrote:
>Can you reproduce this bug with newer version of Ubuntu MATE?
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>Title:
> Notifications area not allowing for oversized icons
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>Status in Ubuntu MATE:
> Invalid
>Status in mate-panel package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
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>Bug description:
> Ubuntu-Mate 17.10 upgraded from 17.04 and using MATE 18 and
> Notifications Area 1.18.4
>
> See attached image, showing the Keyboard Selection icon , which is a
> double-wide one, overlapping and hiding part of the Network Manager
> icon. Thus hiding the Locked/VPN part of the nm icon.
>
> It may be that the Notifications area legitimately does not support
> wide icons, as it would not expect to display any.
>
> I suspect underlying problem is that the Notifications area is
> usurping/claiming as its own normal panel icons! Both the Keyboard
> Selection and Display properties icons are ones that I added to the
> panel (not to the Notifications area), but which over time have been
> 'grabbed' by the Notifications area.
>
> [ Would be quite happy to have as normal panel icons, but can see no
> way to get them back. Move, etc., options not available. ]
>
> I use a laptop with external monitor which is set as Primary when
> attached, so possibly moving panel from 1 screen to the other is cause
> for the Notification Area's icon acquisition behaviour?
>
>To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1730177/+subscriptions

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[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Thanks!