Re: [Elementary-dev-community] light or dark indicators
Hey Sergio, Sorry this got buried in my inbox. You might want to try getting a hold of Ted Gould. He would know more about libappindicator stuff. https://launchpad.net/~ted On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Sergio Costas rasters...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I think I found something: the code that doesn't work in elementary works fine under gnome-shell (3.4 and 3.6), but not under unity, so, definitely, I'm convinced that libappindicator doesn't honor the symbolic namespace :( I'll continue investigating. El 30/11/12 02:00, Daniel Foré escribió: Hey Sergio, Thanks to GTK3 and the -symbolic namespace, you can actually install just one set of icons that will change color to adapt the theme! I can't find good docs right now on how to create/ship/etc symbolic icons, but I would suggest following what is done in GNOME/elementary. (And perhaps we should make a task of providing those docs). In our icon theme, you can open up one of the symbolic icons in a folder like actions/symbolic and see that there is a specific color of grey you should use. Then name your icon with the -symbolic suffix and you should notice that it will change color automatically! On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Sergio Costas rasters...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all: I'm working on an app that has an indicator in the upper bar. Originally I designed the icons assuming a bright background, but elementary has a dark background, and the icons are hardly visible. Where do I have to install the dark and the bright versions to ensure that the system takes the right ones? Thanks. -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Best Regards, Daniel Foré elementaryos.org -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] light or dark indicators
Hi again, Daniel: Well, I learned a lot (like that is mandatory to call gtk-update-icon-cache after installing new icons if you want to ensure that they are fully recognized), but I've been unable to make the symbolic icons work. I created a symbolic-like version of my icons, and after a lot of work (the gtk-update-icon-cache problem) I was able to make them work, but the color was the color key instead of the fg-color from GTK. I tried then to use a true symbolic icon (icon audio-volume-high-symbolic) to try to discard errors in my icon, and found that it was also being incorrectly rendered: the color key wasn't being replaced by fg-color. I'm using libappindicator, and to set the icon I use the call set_icon_full, specifying the icon name as-is, including the -symbolic at the end. I don't know what I'm doing incorrectly :? El 30/11/12 02:00, Daniel Foré escribió: Hey Sergio, Thanks to GTK3 and the -symbolic namespace, you can actually install just one set of icons that will change color to adapt the theme! I can't find good docs right now on how to create/ship/etc symbolic icons, but I would suggest following what is done in GNOME/elementary. (And perhaps we should make a task of providing those docs). In our icon theme, you can open up one of the symbolic icons in a folder like actions/symbolic and see that there is a specific color of grey you should use. Then name your icon with the -symbolic suffix and you should notice that it will change color automatically! On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Sergio Costas rasters...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all: I'm working on an app that has an indicator in the upper bar. Originally I designed the icons assuming a bright background, but elementary has a dark background, and the icons are hardly visible. Where do I have to install the dark and the bright versions to ensure that the system takes the right ones? Thanks. -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] light or dark indicators
Ok, I think I found something: the code that doesn't work in elementary works fine under gnome-shell (3.4 and 3.6), but not under unity, so, definitely, I'm convinced that libappindicator doesn't honor the symbolic namespace :( I'll continue investigating. El 30/11/12 02:00, Daniel Foré escribió: Hey Sergio, Thanks to GTK3 and the -symbolic namespace, you can actually install just one set of icons that will change color to adapt the theme! I can't find good docs right now on how to create/ship/etc symbolic icons, but I would suggest following what is done in GNOME/elementary. (And perhaps we should make a task of providing those docs). In our icon theme, you can open up one of the symbolic icons in a folder like actions/symbolic and see that there is a specific color of grey you should use. Then name your icon with the -symbolic suffix and you should notice that it will change color automatically! On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Sergio Costas rasters...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all: I'm working on an app that has an indicator in the upper bar. Originally I designed the icons assuming a bright background, but elementary has a dark background, and the icons are hardly visible. Where do I have to install the dark and the bright versions to ensure that the system takes the right ones? Thanks. -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] light or dark indicators
Hi Daniel: Thanks for the tip, it sounds really promising. I'll investigate. El 30/11/12 02:00, Daniel Foré escribió: Hey Sergio, Thanks to GTK3 and the -symbolic namespace, you can actually install just one set of icons that will change color to adapt the theme! I can't find good docs right now on how to create/ship/etc symbolic icons, but I would suggest following what is done in GNOME/elementary. (And perhaps we should make a task of providing those docs). In our icon theme, you can open up one of the symbolic icons in a folder like actions/symbolic and see that there is a specific color of grey you should use. Then name your icon with the -symbolic suffix and you should notice that it will change color automatically! On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Sergio Costas rasters...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all: I'm working on an app that has an indicator in the upper bar. Originally I designed the icons assuming a bright background, but elementary has a dark background, and the icons are hardly visible. Where do I have to install the dark and the bright versions to ensure that the system takes the right ones? Thanks. -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Elementary-dev-community] light or dark indicators
Hi all: I'm working on an app that has an indicator in the upper bar. Originally I designed the icons assuming a bright background, but elementary has a dark background, and the icons are hardly visible. Where do I have to install the dark and the bright versions to ensure that the system takes the right ones? Thanks. -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] light or dark indicators
Hey Sergio, Thanks to GTK3 and the -symbolic namespace, you can actually install just one set of icons that will change color to adapt the theme! I can't find good docs right now on how to create/ship/etc symbolic icons, but I would suggest following what is done in GNOME/elementary. (And perhaps we should make a task of providing those docs). In our icon theme, you can open up one of the symbolic icons in a folder like actions/symbolic and see that there is a specific color of grey you should use. Then name your icon with the -symbolic suffix and you should notice that it will change color automatically! On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Sergio Costas rasters...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all: I'm working on an app that has an indicator in the upper bar. Originally I designed the icons assuming a bright background, but elementary has a dark background, and the icons are hardly visible. Where do I have to install the dark and the bright versions to ensure that the system takes the right ones? Thanks. -- Nos leemos RASTER(Linux user #228804) ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Best Regards, Daniel Foré elementaryos.org -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
