Caprine: Strange new message icon behaviour in tray with Linux

[jamesrobb]

Hello,

With release 1.3.0, when I receive a new message, I do get a notification in my my icon tray, but part of the animation appears to be a box that indicates the frame for that animation is missing. I get the impression one of the icons for the animation is missing from the package.

Using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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[danhp]

I'm not too sure what you mean by animation as we only swap between 2 icons.

[jamesrobb]

Here is a short screen cap I did that demonstrates the issue. It should play with VLC or anything else that supports ogv files.

http://www.filedropper.com/out_7

(I know the link seems weird, but I assure you it's a legit download :P)

[danhp]

Doesn't seem we'll be able to fix this in Caprine as we just tell Electron to set a new icon. So the bug is either in Electron itself or Ubuntu.

[jamesrobb]

What are the two icons and where are they located? I notice I could not find the icons in the same place as indicated in the README

[danhp]

They IconTray and IconTrayUnread in the static/ folder

[jamesrobb]

This folder is not present in the release zip file.

[danhp]

in the release zip it should be in resoures/app/media

[jamesrobb]

This folder also does not appear to exist :P

[danhp]

the app is packaged using asar so see #79

[forivall]

@jamesrobb in the future, you can use https://github.com/forivall/fabiokr-dotfiles/blob/cc09efd31dba67ac4c822f009ac4c77584f281cc/bin/ogv-to-gif to convert the ogv screencast to a gif

[jamesrobb]

@forivall Thanks!

@danhp I can see it with asar, I wonder what is going on. If I find out why, I will be sure to post here. To confirm, it should be switching between the normal icon and unread icon to show a blinking effect?

[danhp]

@jamesrobb No it should just switch to the appropriate state, no blinking involved.

[jamesrobb]

@danhp Right, so just a solid icon with the red dot?

[danhp]

@jamesrobb Yup

[redders6600]

On Ubuntu 14.04 with version 1.4.1 I get the following behaviour:

Basically the icon intermittently disappears and reappears so long as an unread message is present.

[sindresorhus]

Pretty sure it's an Electron issue. See https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/6301.

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[mquevill]

That Electron issue was closed a while back because it was outdated, not fixed directly. Does this issue still occur in more current versions of Caprine?

[jamesrobb]

Closing this as its a stale issue. I haven't used Caprine in a long time so I can't meaningfully comment on the status of this problem any longer.