Icon is not monochrome in Unity and that burns my eyes for some reason

gentakojima / emojione-picker-ubuntu

Emoji picker for Ubuntu based on icons by Emojione

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Icon is not monochrome in Unity and that burns my eyes for some reason #5

Closed gentakojima closed 8 years ago

gentakojima commented 8 years ago

As stated in an OMG! Ubuntu comment, the tray icon should follow the Ubuntu guidelines. That is, being monochrome in the unity-mono-dark or unity-mono-light fashion.

I still need to research on how to do this. Any help would be appreciate.

gentakojima commented 8 years ago

I inspected the code of some other applications, and this seems the way to go:

Put special black and white icons inside each theme directory, that is /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark and /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light.
Try to load the icon from the theme, and if not found, default to one included with the application.

gentakojima commented 8 years ago

I implemented this in commit 9799d36c but still need some time to figure out how to integrate this in the Debian package and the standalone shell installer.

It seems calling gtk-update-icon-cache for any altered theme is needed before the icons are recognized properly. I don't know if I can implement this in equivs (time to move out from equivs?), but the shell installer should be ok.

For the current user installation using the shell installer, icons can be appended with xdg-icon-resource to any theme.

gentakojima commented 8 years ago

This is fully implemented in commit 668e9cf1. Both install options (deb and standalone) are working with this, and icons are included for mono-dark and mono-light themes.