ANN: xfce4-volstatus-icon version 0.1.0 released

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:49:26 +0200 Mathias Brodala wrote:

>Hi Brian.
>
>Brian J. Tarricone, 29.05.2007 07:37:
>> On Tue, 29 May 2007 06:56:44 +0200 Mathias Brodala wrote:
>>> bjt23 at cornell.edu, 29.05.2007 02:53:
>>>> I'm pleased to announce the first release (version 0.1.0) of
>>>> xfce4-volstatus-icon.
>>> Great addition to the Xfce desktop. A small issue: the icon for the
>>> system tray is too big here. It is 22×22 whereas it should be 16×16.
>>>
>>> I’d offer translating it into German if no one else is already
>>> working on it.

Feel free.  I don't really keep track of translation status.  That's
what http://i18n.xfce.org/ and xfce-i18n at xfce.org are for.

>> Nothing I can do about that.  GtkStatusIcon just gets either a stock
>> image ID or an icon name.
>
>Just curious: why do you use g_object_new instead of
>gtk_status_icon_new_from_icon_name?

Because I'm not creating a GtkStatusIcon.  I'm creating an
XfceVolstatusIcon, which is a subclass of GtkStatusIcon.

>> It handles all sizing.
>
>And it seems in a buggy way[0].

Sigh.

>> Might want to file a
>> bug on bugzilla.gnome.org against gtk if it bothers you.
>
>I don’t know where to put a possible report.

There already is one - you just linked to it.

> How do Gaim and others
>handle this? Their tray icons have my preferred size. Yes, they don’t
>scale, but who resizes his panel all day long?

They don't use GtkStatusIcon, probably.

>Regards, Mathias
>
>[0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411210

	-brian