Testing Budgie's new System Tray
I'll be here to help with issues and answer questions if anyone has them!
Sorry, I use (allready from day one) Solus Gnome.
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i didnt really notice any difference but now that im looking at it, is the icon spacing settings new? hmm yeah it must be, thats handy, it was a bit tight before
anyway it works as expected, but i didnt really have any issues with the old one either, but i dont really use any tray apps except birdtray and clipit + the defaults
thumbs up
edit: thanks @serebit for spending your time making solus even better!
it does look quite a bit better with some space
That's great!
I hope it solves my problem with the wifi icon on the system tray, the only problem I have.
Indeed, 50% of the time after a startup (or rebboot after friday sync), the icon was all white, because usually it's rather light gray with the visibility of the reception quality, but there, it became a big white spot, as if several icons were superimposed.
I needed to disconnect and reconnect for it to appear perfectly well. I even had to reboot my laptop from time to time.
Fingers crossed!
Big thanks to Serebit!
Lucien_Lachance i didnt really notice any difference
Same here. I didn't notice any obvious differences at first, so I clicked on that answer. If increased spacing is the difference I should have noted, then I wholeheartedly approve. It looks great now!
A spacing setting was actually just a bonus due to how I implemented the layout, but I'm glad people are getting some use out of it!
Also, the ideal situation is one where you didn't have any issues with the old tray and you don't notice a difference. If you had issues with the old tray and the new one fixes those issues, that's even better! What I'm looking for is either:
- An issue with the old tray that the new tray doesn't fix
- An issue with the new tray that the old tray didn't have
If you have a problem with the system tray that fits either of these criteria, please let me know and I'll see if I can fix it.
Noticed something.
When i hover my mouse over the system tray icons info appears above the icon telling me what it is.
Except the network and notification icons. The info shows under the icon, out of sight. Only a thin grey line shows under the icon.
No big deal. Just letting you know.
GuzziPhil Yeah, that was one of the issues I was hoping to solve with the new tray, but it turns out that it's actually an issue with GTK itself. If you want to track that issue, you can find it here. I could fix it for the notification applet pretty easily, but it's impossible to fix it for nm-applet without screwing up some icon sizes.
well, time to switch back to Budgie and see how it goes
serebit I don't know if it's possible to add a feature that could maybe enable/disable on hover tooltips
Scotty-Trees Sadly no, the X system tray is this bizarre system wherein applications just tell X to add a window to the tray. I can't affect the contents of the window, only where it's placed and how it's sized, along with how it's drawn in GTK.
No more overlapping icons! This is amazing!
Thanks for your work, serebit!
I hadn't have trouble with the system tray, I mean no real trouble like things not working or stacks of icons covering each other or such.
I had noticed though - like GuzziPhil - that sometimes I would see the icon info and sometimes I wouldn't (I cannot see a grey line showing under the icons like he can).
That is still the same, probably due to what you explained to him.
I work on a Thinkpad T480, have Plata-Compact/Papirus/Adwaita installed and cannot see the info for these icons:
Caffeine, Night Light, Time/Date/Calendar, User Indicator.
On the other hand I can (reproduceably) see the info for:
Network, Battery 1 & 2, Volume, Bluetooth.
But I must say not being able to see those infos hasn't bothered me and is not that important.
I didn't notice the better spacing between the icons at first but now that I was pointed to it - hooray, it does look better indeed! Thank you for making SOLUS better!
serebit I'm guessing the following behaviour is also GTK-related?:
- Mouse hovering above volume icon:
- Then hovering over the notification icon:
- Finally hovering over the volume icon again:
This could very well have been an issue with the old implementation too. I just noticed it right now after people talked about the tooltips in this thread. Unfortunately I don't have the time to test right now and see if it is a regression.