Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: [Linux] No image for the taskbar icon

Created on 9 May 2016 · 30Comments · Source: MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-

OS: Linux - Debian 8, KDE
3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2 (2016-04-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Issue Descriptions: The taskbar icon is just a white square.

Steps to Reproduce: Start the program.

Snapshot (the blank white square is the Google Play program):
google_play_taskbar_icon

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nanohard

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Similar problem. Kubuntu 16.04. kde 5.18.0

ghost on 11 May 2016

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Can you maybe post a picture of it?

berryelectronics on 9 May 2016

This sounds like an issue with Electron, can you post a link to an ISO of your exact distro

MarshallOfSound on 9 May 2016

Here is a link to the install ISO of my distro. I may not have used this one (8.4), it may have been any from 8.0 - 8.4 since Debian has rolling releases.

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.4.0/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-8.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Here is my current desktop environment:

kde-plasma-desktop:
  Installed: 5:84
  Candidate: 5:84
  Version table:
 *** 5:84 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

But a look at the Debian package reveals that this is actually KDE 4.11

nanohard on 9 May 2016

If were using a tray icon that is hi-res this could be only showing the top left corner similar to how the windows sound menu was screwing up. We can test this by switching out for a low res icon and seeing if that fixes it.

_Then again... that doesn't explain why its white and not just transparent..._

jostrander on 10 May 2016

Maybe its centering it?

berryelectronics on 10 May 2016

Similar problem. Kubuntu 16.04. kde 5.18.0

ghost on 11 May 2016

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I'm just going to say that the tray is functioning properly on my Linux machine(s), both running Arch. The tray being tint2; image: here

rgavs on 19 May 2016

Soo its maybe a KDE thing?

berryelectronics on 19 May 2016

Hi, somewhat similar problem on a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 (only thing installed before this was Google Chrome).

There is an icon but it isn't the right one (it is the last icon in the dock on the left, the _google_ one) :
screenshot from 2016-05-29 18-05-44

It works fine on my other computers (2 other Ubuntu 16.04 and 2 Windows 10 ones) and the only difference that comes to mind is the way I arrived to this specific version (3.2.4) is that I installed it directly with this one while I updated from previous versions for the other computers (may not be related though).

sylmarien on 30 May 2016

@sylmarien Different issue, that's actually Ubuntu's fault. It thinks it is being clever but it isn't :laughing:

MarshallOfSound on 30 May 2016

Hi I'm having the same problem in the latest Manjaro release. I created a github account to report this. Here's the info you requested from OP.

DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.06-rc2 DISTRIB_CODENAME=Daniella DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux" Manjaro Linux NAME="Manjaro Linux" ID=manjaro PRETTY_NAME="Manjaro Linux" ANSI_COLOR="1;32" HOME_URL="http://www.manjaro.org/" SUPPORT_URL="http://www.manjaro.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.manjaro.org/"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/release/16.06-rc2/kde/manjaro-kde-16.06-rc2-x86_64.iso

screenshot_20160603_113314

psyoma on 3 Jun 2016

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Okay, so this seems to only be affecting KDE users.

nanohard on 3 Jun 2016

That's exactly the case @nanohard. @MarshallOfSound unfortunately the fix for this is to reduce the icon dimensions. 32x32 seems to be the magic number, however we can probably use the @Nx syntax to implement larger logos where needed.

jostrander on 5 Jun 2016

@Nx doesn't work on Linux and in high DPI Linux environments the icon needs to be larger. To be honest, icon scaling is actually an issue with the OS as literally every other OS (including other Linux based ones) scales the icon correctly.

I mean, even windows scales it correctly :laughing:

Is there official docs / reasoning behind the lack of icon scaling

MarshallOfSound on 5 Jun 2016

Nothing official, just looking at other electron apps:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/issues/58

Nylas n1 uses the [email protected] as seen here:

https://github.com/nylas/N1/tree/master/internal_packages/system-tray/assets/linux

I'm currently looking in other electron apps at the moment to see how they handle linux DPI tray icons.

jostrander on 5 Jun 2016

On second thought, KDE appears be the exception to the norm here. Can we do a check for KDE and give them a special icon?

Specifically: WindowManager.getWindowManagerName() could be modified to check for it

jostrander on 5 Jun 2016

I can't confirm the problem of @sylmarien on Ubuntu
latest install on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, showing both correct symbols
gpdapp

joergi on 30 Jun 2016

@joergi77 : Yes, I couldn't reproduce it either (had to reinstall a few times my computer and this problem never showed up again). Let's consider my case closed for now.

sylmarien on 30 Jun 2016

These were two separate issues really, the white icon issue, and the wrong icon issue. The white icon issue can be solved by checking for kde and using the lowest res icon available (unless kde fixes it themselves). The other issue is sort of sporadic and has nothing to do with the white icon issue.

jostrander on 1 Jul 2016

@jostrander Do you have any idea how we would identify KDE?

MarshallOfSound on 1 Jul 2016

GDMSESSION=kde-plasma

As seen here, not sure it will be the same for Manjaro, one of theme will need to reply with their environment variables to confirm.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/72549/how-to-determine-which-window-manager-is-running

jostrander on 1 Jul 2016

+1
I tried to write a multi resolution PNG (using "convert" ImageMagick) but still does not work.
Overwriting /usr/share/pixmaps/google-play-music-desktop-player.png

So, the problem should be something different

Debian 8 + KDE