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Inconsistent icon scaling in Systray widget #5054

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holocronweaver opened this issue Oct 22, 2024 · 10 comments
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Inconsistent icon scaling in Systray widget #5054

holocronweaver opened this issue Oct 22, 2024 · 10 comments
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holocronweaver commented Oct 22, 2024 •
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Issue description

Some of my Systray icons are not scaling as expected, with some remaining very small no matter the icon size I specify.

Screenshot_20241022_122329

Not sure if #2438 is related.

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0.1.dev5550+g4b4b936

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X11 (default)

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widget.Systray(
     icon_size=int(32 * dpi_scaling),
     padding=30,
),

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Qtile does not scale Systray icons, these are provided by the apps. Some apps scale, others just provide the icon nearest the requested size.

We can't do anything about this.

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That makes sense. However, KDE is able to scale these icons (like the Signal icon on far left, which is on far right of above screenshot):

Screenshot_20241022_201447

What is KDE doing to scale icons that Qtile is not?

Perhaps KDE is scaling icons beyond the size provided by their app to force them to fit the desired scale? If so, could Qtile do this as well?

For hidpi screens it seems preferable to scale all icons to the same size, regardless of what size the app provides, so that the icons remain visible even if that means introducing some aliasing. Or at least it could be a toggle?

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It's that an x11 system tray or is the StatusNotifier that?

If it is a system tray then there's something we're missing. If it's StatusNotifier then we can absolutely scale the icons. They're different widgets with different specs.

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holocronweaver commented Oct 24, 2024 •
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I use X11 in both KDE and Qtile. So the above screenshots are the Qtile Systray widget and KDE 5.27.11 X11 system tray.

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Interesting... I can try to look at their code then and see what they do then but I am surprised as qtile does not draw those icons, we just tell the apps what size we want. Hopefully it's a case of us just missing something simple.

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This is where we looked at the issue before: #2948

I'm also suspicious that the KDE system tray is using the StatusNotifier spec as there's far more code related to that in their source.

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holocronweaver commented Jan 22, 2025 •
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Worth noting that GNOME 3 using X11 in Ubuntu 22.04 did not have this scaling issue either, and it uses the application provided icons. So proper scaling isn't unique to KDE. Here is its source code: https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

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holocronweaver commented Apr 22, 2025 •
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Currently the apps I use that are effected include Dropbox, redshift-qt, and the KDE keyboard layout switcher. So maybe just Qt apps effected?

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