Tray icon is not transparent when using python-eggtrayicon

[Barry Warsaw]

When using the Ambiance theme in Maverick, gtimelog's tray icon area is still dark-on-light so it looks horrible.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

This seems to be a bug in python-eggtrayicon:

    >>> import egg.trayicon, gtk
    >>> icon = egg.trayicon.TrayIcon("Foo")
    >>> img = gtk.Image()
    >>> img.set_from_file('gtimelog-small.png')
    >>> icon.add(img)
    >>> icon.show_all()

The same transparent png, when used with gtk.StatusIcon(), is properly transparent.

    >>> import gtk
    >>> icon = gtk.status_icon_new_from_file("gtimelog-small.png")

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

As a GTimeLog-specific workaround, I recommend setting 'prefer_old_tray_icon = no' in ~/.gtimelog/gtimelogrc. I'll make that the default in trunk.

There's a side efect: you lose the task clock display in your systray, since gtk.StatusIcon doesn't support arbitrary widgets.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

(Setting status to Invalid since this is a bug in EggTrayIcon, with no way of working around it in GTimeLog that I can see.)