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Add option for a monochrome tray icon to better fit in with other tray icons #757

Closed aaronraimist closed 1 week ago

aaronraimist commented 5 years ago

What would you like to do?

Provide a dark / monochrome system tray icon for desktop environments with dark themes.

Why would you like to do it?

Dark tray icons would make Element look more professional and provide a consistent UI experience.

How would you like to achieve it?

adrianiainlam commented 5 years ago

Hi, I'm the one who mentioned this in the chat room. Thanks for creating this feature request here.

I'd just like to add a screenshot for context: image

lapineige commented 4 years ago

Little 🆙 here, with the transition to Element and its new logo, it's even more visible than before and very eye-catching, which is very disturbing in a desktop environment with monochrome icons.

fahrradflucht commented 4 years ago

just fyi for people voting this up: only voting the topmost comment will influence the vote ranking in the issue overview (even though its empty :sweat_smile:).

holocronweaver commented 1 year ago

Since this issue has no description, I filled out the template. ( @aaronraimist - feel free to copy/modify to your original post since it seems this issue has become the tracker for this request. )

Please upvote the topmost comment (not this one) to make this feature request visible to devs.

What would you like to do?

Provide a dark / monochrome system tray icon for desktop environments with dark themes.

Why would you like to do it?

Dark tray icons would make Element look more professional and provide a consistent UI experience.

How would you like to achieve it?

Optional stretch feature which would tie Element desktop theming together: default to dark themes (UI and icon) if desktop environment is using a dark theme.

Please upvote the topmost comment (not this one) to make this feature request visible to devs.

aaronraimist commented 1 year ago

@holocronweaver thanks

Monochrome system tray icon theme is defaulted to when selecting a dark Element UI theme.

I'm not sure if I agree with that so I've taken that out but feel free to leave it in your comment.

Optional stretch feature which would tie Element desktop theming together: default to dark themes (UI and icon) if desktop environment is using a dark theme.

That's already a feature. If it doesn't work for you I would suggest you comment on https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/issues/690 and/or https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/issues/881.

holocronweaver commented 1 year ago

Monochrome system tray icon theme is defaulted to when selecting a dark Element UI theme.

Maybe I should rephrase as, "Monochrome system tray icon theme is defaulted to when desktop environment uses a dark theme." At least on Ubuntu and MacOS most apps I use have monochrome icons when desktop is set to a dark theme. It would make Element stand out like a sore thumb if it used colored icons by default on dark Ubuntu/MacOS themes. Not sure about Windows.

fahrradflucht commented 1 year ago

I would say on macOS its not actually dependent on the theme. All well behaved tray icons are monochrome. See Apples HIG on the topic.

tonytonyistony commented 8 months ago

I was messing around with this in KDE Plasma Breeze-Dark theme, trying to get the icon to change. I had no success, but I made an icon. Thought I would share if the project wanted to add it.

element-desktop

Its 22x22 in SVG format.

fl4co commented 5 months ago

I was messing around with this in KDE Plasma Breeze-Dark theme, trying to get the icon to change. I had no success, but I made an icon. Thought I would share if the project wanted to add it.

element-desktop

Its 22x22 in SVG format.

I was considering opening an issue for the same problem, current icon really looks out of place: immagine

I hope your icon makes it into Element.