ANN: xfce4-volstatus-icon version 0.1.0 released

[Mathias Brodala]

Hi Brian.

Brian J. Tarricone, 29.05.2007 19:45:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:49:26 +0200 Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> 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.

Your plugin is not yet listed there. I only saw that there’s no German
translation in the po directory.

I’ll attach the translation. (But I only created a *.mo since I don’t know how
to create a *.gmo.)

>>> 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.

I see; didn’t really understand what was going on.

>>> 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.

Unfortunately no real response up until now …

>> 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.

I tried digging through the code but it’s way too much. Guess you’re right.


Regards, Mathias

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