Caprine: Use a nicer tray icon

[alekksander]

please make tray icon something more stylish.

currently on kde looks like:
https://i.imgur.com/TtQcdoA.png

would love:
https://imgur.com/8FTEoLv (this is from numix icon set)
or something monochrome

[centraleffects]

This is how it looks in Ubuntu 16.04 task bar a question icon
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu9ug1nj9nmzvqp/Screenshot%20from%202018-05-11%2002-37-08.png?dl=0

[jimmy213]

Speaking of nicer tray icon, it might be better to be grey when there isn't any new message and teal (I think that's the color) when a message arrives.
That way, it should be more obvious when a new message arrives, as it's hard to see the little red dot sometimes.

[alekksander]

@jimmy213 good idea. it shouldn't be hard to do. if there is green light for this from the dev (@sindresorhus), i could try to design two svg (png?) icons.

[Pobega]

The way that @jimmy213 describes it is how Messenger for Desktop does it, and it would be much appreciated. It's the main way I notice when I get new messages.

[jimmy213]

To tell you the truth, I had this in mind, as I was using it before moving to Caprine.

[sindresorhus]

Speaking of nicer tray icon, it might be better to be grey when there isn't any new message and teal (I think that's the color) when a message arrives.
That way, it should be more obvious when a new message arrives, as it's hard to see the little red dot sometimes.

Yeah, sure. PR welcome.

[Pobega]

@Smatchcube

This is how Messenger for Desktop (and all the other programs I've used) do it:

And on new message:

[pintergreg]

With #482 we've got new gray tray icon, witch is in my opinion somewhat better but it is just a grayscale version of the old one. I would like to see some symbolic icons (maybe with an option).

I used Inkscape to convert the Caprine icon to SVG and create a simplier version to visualize my idea.

The current, grayscaled icon:

My modified version:

Unread could be white (I used a 5% gray) or even blue.
And finally the SVG file.

What do you think?

[sindresorhus]

@pintergreg Yeah, I agree the flat one (yours) looks better.

[alekksander]

with newest build it's still like:

https://i.imgur.com/TtQcdoA.png

under newest kde plasma

[sindresorhus]

@alekksander Probably related to https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/12791

[whitecrownclown]

It seems this can't be done at the moment, at least not using svg because of electron/electron#9642 not being done.

[maxoku]

Now it shows dark gray icon and blue when message comes. Would it be possible to somehow personalize it to show it blue normally? Then when message come add a red dot or change color?

[alekksander]

yes, it's possible. https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/tree/master/static here are pngs used to display regular and unread icons. You have to swap these with those You prefer (which means inkscape, or gimp work to be done.) for consistency in my system i use graphics from numix

compiling electron is very easy. almost too easy ;)

[maxoku]

@alekksander
But how exactly?

[alekksander]

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