[stardict] notification icon not transparent

This happens on Feisty as well.

is the same in hardy. Icons in package is transparent, but loaded without transparency.

this is the patch from cvs upstream (Evgeniy Dushistov). It works. Possible to apply?

looks like, patch was applied in jaunty - icon background is now transparent

hm...not for me.. background is still not transperent on jaunty. Am I missing something?

I've built packages with Pavel's patch. You can download it from my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~snizovtsev/+archive/ppa

Still not transparent at Lucid 10.04 LTS.

This didn't happen to me in a couple of Ubuntu releases, but upgrading to Maverick (stardict-gnome 3.0.1-7) introduced it here.

I just checked with "strace -f -e open -o /tmp/star.out stardict" that only the icons from /usr/share/stardict/pixmaps/ are loaded.
Viewing these icons with eog or another tool shows them transparent, but in the notification area I get that light grey background just like in the screenshot linked above. To verify that the icons don't suffer from some obscure format error, I replaced one of them (after backing it up) with a knowingly working one:

cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/updates-notifier.png /usr/share/stardict/pixmaps/docklet_stop.png

The result is the update notifier icon on a light grey background. So the problem must be the way the icons are displayed, not the icons themself.

The bug is fixed in SVN. See here:

http://www.stardict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=246

Happens to me in maverick but did not happen in lucid.

2010/9/29 Ulf Rompe <email address hidden>

> This didn't happen to me in a couple of Ubuntu releases, but upgrading
> to Maverick (stardict-gnome 3.0.1-7) introduced it here.
>

Probably you changed theme, or image for the panel

>
> I just checked with "strace -f -e open -o /tmp/star.out stardict" that only
> the icons from /usr/share/stardict/pixmaps/ are loaded.
> Viewing these icons with eog or another tool shows them transparent, but in
> the notification area I get that light grey background just like in the
> screenshot linked above. To verify that the icons don't suffer from some
> obscure format error, I replaced one of them (after backing it up) with a
> knowingly working one:
>
> cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/updates-notifier.png
> /usr/share/stardict/pixmaps/docklet_stop.png
>
> The result is the update notifier icon on a light grey background. So
> the problem must be the way the icons are displayed, not the icons
> themself.
>
>
Yes, system theme color is being used, to create icon background.
This is the original bugfix regarding white background of notification area
icon
http://www.stardict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=246

Try using system theme as panel background.
(right click > properties > background > none)

The only way i found to use a different panel background icon without this
issue,
is to recompile stardict using as notification area icon, a custom one with
proper background
(you can create it, using original stardict icon and your actual panel
background)

    This didn't happen to me in a couple of Ubuntu releases, but upgrading
    to Maverick (stardict-gnome 3.0.1-7) introduced it here.

Probably you changed theme, or image for the panel

    I just checked with "strace -f -e open -o /tmp/star.out stardict" that only the icons from /usr/share/stardict/pixmaps/ are loaded.
    Viewing these icons with eog or another tool shows them transparent, but in the notification area I get that light grey background just like in the screenshot linked above. To verify that the icons don't suffer from some obscure format error, I replaced one of them (after backing it up) with a knowingly working one:

    cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/updates-notifier.png
    /usr/share/stardict/pixmaps/docklet_stop.png

    The result is the update notifier icon on a light grey background. So
    the problem must be the way the icons are displayed, not the icons
    themself.

Yes, system theme color is being used, to create icon background.
This is the original bugfix regarding white background of notification area icon

http://www.stardict.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=246

Try using system theme as panel background.
(right click > properties > background > none)

The only way i found to use a different panel background icon without this issue,
is to recompile stardict using as notification area icon, a custom one with proper background
(you can create it, using original stardict icon and your actual panel background)