systray icon appears too big on ubuntu

tested on ubuntu artful, with a 1366x768 resolution. the icon appears cut.

@kali has this happen again to you? can we close this issue?

Hello, I have the same problem with Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 vanilla install. See here (wire icon has same problem):

I reported this to budgie: https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/701#issuecomment-456822055

Their answer is, that the icon should be smaller, or svg format.

I see, so what they are saying is that we should use 22x22 icons. Right now we use 36x36 and I think is mostly to support correctly OSX retina displays. We need to evaluate if svg is an option for the systray library we use (not sure about that) and it will work both in OSX and linux (windows has a differnt ico format) or if we need to re-scale them for linux.

Yes, although in view of different taskbar heights (I like a narrow one saving real estate, others might want a bigger one for better readability) it would be best if the icon scales with the bar. I guess svg should be able to do this?

I briefly had the "old/stable" leap bitmask app installed in budgie (didn't work because of missing polkit, so I switched to the new beta) and did not have the icon-size problem.

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Is this still an issue for anyone?

mentioned in issue #67 (closed)

Hello WaIter,

yes, I have the issue in 20.04 Ubuntu with mate and munity "tweak" (see screenshot). I don't have it in KDE, and I think in Gnome it was also not a problem. The symbol stays too big compared to other icons in all states (disconnected, connecting, connected).

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Looking at https://0xacab.org/leap/bitmask-vpn/-/tree/main/providers/riseup/assets, I see there is an SVG icon. So why isn't it working? I wonder if this is just a case of not having the issue resolved in the release version which is a little stale. @chaos_prevails2 could you try the beta version and see if it doesn't resolve the problem?

indeed, this seems to be fixed with sudo snap install --classic --beta riseup-vpn

snap list: riseup-vpn 0.20.4-192-gcdc85fb3 166 latest/beta leapsnaps classic

previously both versions 0.19.11 (dpkg) and 0.20.4 (snap stable) showed a too big icon (and I think the old icon, the icon now is light green).

thanks!