ags: use system-wide icon theme for systray

[moetayuko]

The system-wide gtk icon theme can be set by:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme icon_theme_name

Don't mess up user's preference.

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I don't have Adwaita as my icon theme, but I prefer its symbolic icons. In my defense:

• Adwaita is available almost everywhere, and it's like how i use Material Symbols over system icons for most elements
• I only force Adwaita on symbolic icons. As Adwaita's symbolic icons are thick, they're accessible and consistent with Material Symbols.

Though maybe we could make a config option for it if you really wanna change it. Styles are compiled at runtime so it'll probably be easy

[moetayuko]

I agree that Adwaita is the most accessible icon theme, but it's not complete enough.

For instance, here's my systray w/ Adwaita: and as you can see, keepassxc and kdeconnect icons are indistinguishable from the white background. This is because Adwaita does not provide customized icons for them, and their built-in icons are selected as fallbacks, which are unsuitable for the white background.

On the other hand, they're perfectly fine when using the Papirus-Light icon theme (provides customized icons), which is designed for white background:

In my personal setting, I use darkman scripts to set the icon theme to Papirus-Light for the light color scheme and Papirus-Dark for the dark color scheme at runtime (via the gsettings command mentioned above, gtk handles icon reload automatically so ags doesn't need to restart), which is not possible when it's hardcoded.

PS: I'm not against the use of Adwaita, but we need to fix indistinguishable tray icons, and using the system-wide icon theme is a handy solution for it.

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(via the gsettings command mentioned above, gtk handles icon reload automatically so ags doesn't need to restart)

yeah but i want to have different icon packs for symbolic and normal icons since the former in my icon pack sucks i'll implement a config option for separate icon theme for symbolic icons when i have time

[moetayuko]

yeah but i want to have different icon packs for symbolic and normal icons since the former in my icon pack suck

Is removing @include symbolic-icon from .bar-systray-item only acceptable to you? It will resolve my issue anyway

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added that config option

[moetayuko]

added that config option

thanks, is it possible to change it from cmdline w/o restarting ags?

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thanks, is it possible to change it from cmdline w/o restarting ags?

nope