Notification icon not displaying properly

[JMcC]

Hi,

I'm using yad 0.39.0 on ArchLinux with XFCE.

When I do 

    yad --notification --image="myicon.png"

the icon shows up in the tray too small (about 2/3 the correct height) and about half of it is repeated on the right hand side.   The icon is a normal 96x96 png file which should scale appropriately.  

If I do 

     yad --notification

I get the default "test tube" icon displayed normally.  

But if I do

    yad --notification --image="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/yad.png" (pointing to yad's own icon explicitly), I get the same distortion!

Is this a bug?

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated!

[Victor Ananjevsky]

hi

no, this is not a bug. before yad 0.40 notification icons which
specifies by absolute filename automatically scales to 16 pixels size

in the release 0.40.0 i add --icon-size option for costom icon sizes

so please update to the latest version or use icon name instead of
filenames.
this workaround must works in older versions

yad -- notification --image="myicon" --image-path="$(pwd)"

В Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:14:18 -0800 (PST)
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[JMcC]

Hello, thanks for your response (and thanks for making a great program BTW).

I think my problem actually has to do with how XFCE deals with the 16x16 icon.  I just recently switched to Arch/XFCE from Mint-KDE 17.3.  On the old KDE system, which had yad 0.39 installed, the same command worked - at least a single icon showed up in the tray... a little small at 16x16, but quite serviceable.  Now with XFCE it seems it's trying to fill the space by doubling a portion of the icon. 

Unfortunately your suggested workaround did not work for me - just got an error icon in the tray and the following output:

  (yad:10492): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_append_search_path: assertion 'GTK_IS_ICON_THEME (icon_theme)' failed

I will work on installing yad 0.40 but so far the arch repositories only have up to 0.39.  Will need to install from source I guess (and am a bit of a newbie at that).

Thanks again,

J

[JMcC]

For the record, I was able to improve the icon appearance by right clicking the XFCE notification area, selecting "properties" and reducing the maximum icon size from 22 to 20.

[Upgreyed]

Since 0.40.0 I have been using a patch to fix the notify icon... The patch displays the icons correct size in PCLinuxOS

all DE's for us.