latest update breaks monochrome

Bug #522698 reported by maki7143
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Vish
indicator-me (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
David Barth
indicator-sound (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ted Gould

Bug Description

Binary package hint: humanity-icon-theme

as the summary say: monochrome icons in notification area is broken

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Vish (vish) wrote :

Not a bug in humanity.
The monochrome icons are present in the theme with -panel names.

The applet's code hasnt been updated to use the icons.

Volume icon > indicator application
MeMenu > ??? [i not sure what the exact name of the package is]

Changed in humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Indicator-application needs to fix this by using the fallbacks as done for the indicator-session shutdown icon [system-shutdown-panel]

Changed in indicator-application (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Indicator-me Also needs to be fixed.

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in indicator-application (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → David Barth (dbarth)
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Part of having design guidelines is knowing when it makes sense to break them. Having mostly-monochrome icons in the panel makes the panel more elegant and coherent. But I think IM statuses are one place where we should not use monochrome icons.

There are two reasons for this. First is a competing consistency: the Away icon "should" look the same (a) in the panel, (b) inside the Me menu, (c) in Empathy's own status menu, and (d) next to contacts in the contact list. Any inconsistency here would be much more visible than (for example) inconsistency between the monochrome battery-charging icon in the panel and the colorful battery-charging icon in the rarely-visited battery information window.

Second is ease of distinction: for IM status icons it is difficult to distinguish them if they do not use color, as the Humanity icons in Ubuntu 9.10 unfortunately demonstrated. (What does a dark grey bubble with an arrow in it mean, again?)

Perhaps neither of these reasons would be enough on its own. But combined, I think they definitely are.

Now, there are three ways to implement this. (1) Have the Me menu use normal icons rather than -panel variants. (2) Have the Me menu use -panel icons, but have Humanity not provide them (so it falls back to the non-panel versions). (3) Have the Me menu use -panel icons, and have Humanity provide them, but make them exactly the same as the non-panel equivalents. Option 1 is what's happening now, but options 2 and 3 would provide most freedom for authors of other icon themes who have different opinions on this topic than I do.

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Vish (vish) wrote :

Marking as incomplete , [awaiting final verdict]. Either I can remove the monochrome icons or leave it as such.

Changed in humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Vish (vish...)
status: Invalid → Incomplete
Matt (mwood15)
Changed in indicator-application (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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Vish (vish) wrote :

The volume icon has been fixed with update >
indicator-sound (0.1.1-0ubuntu1)
New upstream version
use of new icons from the new humanity theme.

affects: indicator-application (Ubuntu) → indicator-sound (Ubuntu)
Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

is that still an issue?

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Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

For IM status must be left in color if it is difficult to distinguish the statutes

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

right and they are right now, so is there still an issue?

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
status: Invalid → Triaged
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Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I return to what I said, its is clearly visible in the monochrome status :)

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Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

For me-menu it's "fix release"

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

guigui14100, yes its fixed and please dont hesitate to mark bugs fixed (if they are fixed;))

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Vish (vish) wrote :

@ Omar , are you sure it was fixed in indicator-me?

The monochrome icons were updated , dont be hasty in closing bugs as fixed..

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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Vish (vish) wrote :

@Omer Akram:
Also read comment #4

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Vish (vish) wrote :

Closing humanity task

Changed in humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Vish (vish) wrote :

This bug was fixed in update:
indicator-me (0.2.5-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - use specific -panel icons or fallback gracefully if absent

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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