Testing Budgie's new System Tray

WetGeek

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!

serebit

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!

serebit

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.

GuzziPhil

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.

serebit

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.

SOLUSfiddler

GuzziPhil serebit

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!

GuzziPhil

serebit No problem. It doesn't bother me or affect me. Didn't realise it was already known about.

Scotty-Trees

serebit I don't know if it's possible to add a feature that could maybe enable/disable on hover tooltips

Staudey

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.

synth-ruiner

well, time to switch back to Budgie and see how it goes 🙂

N1X3L

serebit Avast, it's so much better, says I! And the Deepin Sea theme is now more stout than a copper-bottomed hull. At long last, the nautical theme I be wantin', and the one Solus deserves. So theme up me hearties, yo ho! 🦜🏴‍☠️🌊

JoshStrobl

serebit

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.

vitalvital

serebit, I've got a tooltip placement issue on my system. The Network and Notification icon hover tooltips, on the bottom panel, are placed below the icons (outside the viewport). Volume tooltip however is placed correctly above. See (assuming that the gray line on the bottom right is the top of the tooltip):

I am not sure if this behavior is new, as I have not used (and have no use of) this tooltip feature for these particular icons.

eiszfuchs

No more overlapping icons! This is amazing! 🥰

JoshStrobl

This isn't a regression, it is a bug in Gtk+. Been around for a while unfortunately.

Neumie

Just had a quick play around with it. Looks great overall. The steam icon seems to fit in nicer with the others.
Just a couple of issues.

1) (I think this is a known issue): With the old system tray: I have had a long standing issue where the icons in the system tray would go missing if i turned off my screen then turned it back on. This seems to be related to UI scaling (I use 200%) and using a 4K monitor.
With the new system tray the icons get corrupted and un-usuable. I suspect it's the same issue just manifesting itself a bit differently.
Note: only the system tray icons are affected. the other things like the clock/power button/Raven button all work fine.
Note: Using a Vega 64 and the current kernel.

2) Kinda related to 1. if i remove the system tray in Budgie desktop setting then i re add it, 2 of every icon in the system tray appears. I'm not sure if that is a new issue though.

The only way to get everything back to normal is to log back out and back in or restart the system.

Also just an observation: The steam icon used in the system tray is not the same one used by the icon theme in Solus (the blue Steam icon). I don't know if that is the intended behavior or not so just thought i would mention it. Personally i think the update looks nicer.

serebit

Neumie I didn't test with 200% scaling too frequently, but I do know that it's a weak point of carbontray and I'm going to address it when I get the chance. Regardless, those two issues you noted definitely earned a "what the hell?" from me, and I'll do my best to try and fix them.

Harry

Lucien_Lachance How are you getting this spacing in your system, I have tried eopkg up and I don't think with the upgrade anything has changed?

Lucien_Lachance

Harry well, the new tray applet allows for spacing. budgie settings -> your panel -> applets -> system tray
the rest of the spacing is just a bunch of spacer applets placed between the various applets

Harry

Lucien_Lachance Oh lol, thanks btw

« Previous Page Next Page »