Network Monitor icons are horizontally stretched

I have 1400 x 1050 resolution and have the same problem with an up-to-date (time of this ticket) edgy.

Same problem with 1024x768 resolution.

Same problem with 1024x768 also

Exactly the same with a widescreen 1280x800 display and the knot2 upgraded to the current version of Edgy.

I'm willing to spend some time debugging this to see if it's caused by bad icons or other artwork related things. Unfortunately I don't have a wireless card on my system so I'd like to ask if there's a way to test the signal strength meter without a WLAN card.

I don't know how to get the wireless icon up there if you don't have a
wireless card, but I think this is definitely an artwork related bug. I
found the problem icons and for each one when I right clicked them nautilus
could not read the image size information. It should read them as 24x24.

Here is where I found the icons:

/usr/share/icons/Human/24x24/status/network*png

/usr/share/icons/Human/24x24/apps/gnome-netstatus*png

If the panel can't read the size information from the image like nautilus
can't, you would imagine it would default to some big size like it's doing
now.

Sorry if I mislead anyone with my last response, but now that I've looked at
it some more it seems that the applet may just not support scalable icons
which is actually what it's using for the wireless icon. The icons from here
look fine:
/usr/share/icons/Human/24x24/status/network*png

I can slide a toolbar separator right up to its left edge. However the
wireless icon takes up equal amounts of huge space on both its sides.

The actual wireless icon is located here:
/usr/share/icons/Human/24x24/scalable/apps/gnome-netstatus*svg

More info:
Deleting /usr/share/icons/Human/scalable/apps/gnome-netstatus-75-100.svgmakes
everything look normal.

When it can't find the deleted icon, it defaults to:
/usr/share/icons/Human/48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-75-100.png

On 9/20/06, Darren Hinderer <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Sorry if I mislead anyone with my last response, but now that I've looked
> at it some more it seems that the applet may just not support scalable icons
> which is actually what it's using for the wireless icon. The icons from here
> look fine:
>
> /usr/share/icons/Human/24x24/status/network*png
>
> I can slide a toolbar separator right up to its left edge. However the
> wireless icon takes up equal amounts of huge space on both its sides.
>
> The actual wireless icon is located here:
> /usr/share/icons/Human/24x24/scalable/apps/gnome-netstatus*svg
>

I could imagine that gnome-netstatus' code expects the SVG to have similar brain-dead size information as the normal icons. Upstream icon has:

daniel@bert:~$ file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-75-100.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-75-100.png: PNG image data, 11 x 32, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
daniel@bert:~$

(So 11x32 for a 48x48 icon.)

If somebody likes to investigate that, that'd be nice.

Since this bug applies to not only resolutions of 1280x768, could the summary not be changed to something else?

Something in the lines of "Network Monitor icons look stretched out", for example?

Same problem here. Very irritating: I have many icons and little space on the top panel on my 1024x768 desktop, and now netstatus wastes most of the space I still had available for notification area icons.

I noticed that two of the 24x24 images (gnome-netstatus-0-24.png and gnome-netstatus-25-49.png) were 24x24 instead of 12x24, but I tried cropping them, updating the gtk icon cache and restarting the netstatus applet, with no difference in the output.

By the way, the all the 48x48 icons here are really 18x41.

The problem is with the svg icons. Other icon themes have no problems. If I rename gnome-netstatus-[0-9]*.svn out of the way and rebuild the icon cache, there is no extra space around the signal strength icon, but the icon still doesn't look like it's supposed to: it is scaled with no regard to proportion (see the attached image).

BTW, I have cropped the two 24x24 icons to 12x24; I don't know if extra margins would appear if I hadn't cropped them.

wide icons here too!!

there's a problem with the gnome-network-applet. when a wireless network is choosed. the icon change size but to the wide.

can be solved?? is there going to be any patch??

nrayever

I get it now: gnome-netstatus takes the largest available icon and scales it vertically, without keeping the aspect ratio. See src/netstatus-icon.c, the code of netstatus_icon_scale_icons (passes retain_aspect=FALSE to scale_pixbuf when scaling signal icons) and netstatus_icon_lookup_icon_theme (passes 1000 as the desired size to gtk_icon_theme_lookup_icon to get the biggest one).

sorry my resolution is 1440x900

nrayever

Quick workaround: go to /usr/share/icons/Human and remove these files:

  ./scalable/apps/gnome-netstatus-0-24.svg
  ./scalable/apps/gnome-netstatus-25-49.svg
  ./scalable/apps/gnome-netstatus-50-74.svg
  ./scalable/apps/gnome-netstatus-75-100.svg

if you have a small panel you may also want to remove these files:

  ./48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-0-24.png
  ./48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-25-49.png
  ./48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-50-74.png
  ./48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-75-100.png

then run sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/Human and restart the netstatus applet (e.g. by running killall gnome-netstatus-applet).

Marius

may i ask you where is: src /netstatus-icon.c ?? it's a directory or file?

nrayever

----- Original Message ----
From: Marius Gedminas <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Sunday, October 1, 2006 5:33:15 PM
Subject: [Bug 57626] Re: Network Monitor Icons look stretched out on 1280x768 resolution

I get it now: gnome-netstatus takes the largest available icon and
scales it vertically, without keeping the aspect ratio. See src
/netstatus-icon.c, the code of netstatus_icon_scale_icons (passes
retain_aspect=FALSE to scale_pixbuf when scaling signal icons) and
netstatus_icon_lookup_icon_theme (passes 1000 as the desired size to
gtk_icon_theme_lookup_icon to get the biggest one).

--
Network Monitor Icons look stretched out on 1280x768 resolution
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57626

This bug is pretty similar to another one in gnome. The patch to Gnome bug 325149, while overly complex, almost works. The orientation setting inverted, but I imagine thats because the original author wanted it on the left side. Someone with a bit more familiarity with GTK+ wanna have a look?

Andrea: the source code of gnome-netstatus applet. You can download it by typing apt-get source gnome-netstatus.

Everyone is wanting to assign this bug to me and I'm fine with that except for the fact that I can not test this myself and would be shooting in the dark when trying to resolve this. There have been suggestions for resolving this bug, so if someone can give me a way to fake a WLAN interface or work around it another way, I'll glady work on solving this.

Frank: I found a way to spoof a wireless interface. Download the fake-wireless file (it's a copy of my /proc/net/wireless, with the eth1 entry duplicated as fake eth0 and lo entries), put it in /tmp, then run

   sudo mount --bind /tmp/fake-wireless /proc/net/wireless
   killall gnome-netstatus-applet

Now if you select 'eth0', 'eth1' or 'lo' in the applet ('lo' will always be available, even if you have no network cards), it will think this is is a wireless interface and show the signal strength bar.

You can open the /tmp/fake-wireless file in a text editor and change the link quality column manually to see the various signal strength icons. A value of 1 gives me 1 bar, a value of 5 gives me 2 bars, a value of 10 gives me 3 bars, and a value of 30 (or higher) all 4 bars.

When you're done, remove the spoofed file with

   sudo umount -l /tmp/fake-wireless
   killall gnome-netstatus-applet

a reboot will also remove the spoof.

Yowser Marius that's a VERY cunning trick :-)

Assigning to me, going to check Marius' trick and work towards a solution.

This patch makes the signal strength icons scale properly preserving the aspect ratio. Tested on horizontal and vertical panels with sizes ranging from 24 to 72 px, no oddness in scaling encountered. This should fix the problem the right way as far as I can tell.

gnome-netstatus (2.12.0-5ubuntu5) edgy; urgency=low

  * Use aspect correct icon scaling (Closes: Malone: 57626)
    Thanks to Frank Schoep

 -- Paul Sladen <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:54:17 +0100

The icon is now scaled properly, but the margins are still somewhat off. Take a look at the attached image: the space between the network activity indicator and the wifi strength bar is larger than the space between adjacent applets.

Could you please strip the empty space from the sides of the svg?

Here's a screenshot with the GNOME theme, to demonstrate that the extra wide space comes from the artwork and not from the netapplet code

OK, the problem is clear. I'll work on fixing the SVGs, expect the fixed ones to be uploaded in the next few days. Paul, I'm taking this bug back.

There is no status for "Fixing some more", so I chose "In Progress" again.

OK, to avoid confusion and multiple bug reports I'm setting this one to Fix Released, see bug #64269 for the changes to the icon theme.

It seams that this bug come back today with the new gnome-netstatus

Ok, so it appears that the fix was dropped because it wasn't in a patch. enable frank patch fix the issue.
I provide a debdiff in case :

 gnome-netstatus (2.12.1-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/03-use_aspect_correct_icon_scaling.patch :
      - Fix the icone scale issue. Was dropped in the last update.
      - Put it in a patch to avoid dropping it again.

I can it has reappeared on feisty
http://img.bugabundo.net/pub/network.png

Be sure that you have 2.12.1-0ubuntu2 it should fix it

[quote]
Be sure that you have 2.12.1-0ubuntu2 it should fix it[/quote] I do have the latest version under feisty.

Please give me the output of :
apt-cache madison gnome-netstatus-applet
remove and readd the applet and confirm that it works or not.
If it don't work, install
http://flomertens.keo.in/debian/gnome-netstatus-applet_false_i386.deb
remove and readd the applet and confirm that it works or not.

Thanks