White icon on white team in Debian 4xc58

[mhoude]

Hi,

The FDM icon is white on my debian kde taskbar which is light grey so it is barely visible.

Is there a way to make the systray icon color inverted ?

Thanks

[Alex]

Hello,
I'm afraid, no. Can you post a screenshot?

[Usher]

To be more precise, the FDM icon in tray is white with transparent background, other colors are missing.

[Usher]

Screenshots taken on Linux Mint, FDM icon is in the red rectangle:
Mate desktop:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AKm4ZaWdL2tfgkU
XFCE desktop:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AKm4ZaWdL2tfgkQ
Cinnamon desktop:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AKm4ZaWdL2tfgkM
It would be enough to add bright blue border (#40B4F0, color used for FDM png), I think.

[mhoude]

At least can we change the taskbar icon manually ?

[Alex]

Screenshots taken on Linux Mint, FDM icon is in the red rectangle

Hello,
Thank you.

[Alex]

At least can we change the taskbar icon manually ?

I don't think so. However, I'm not very familiar with Linux.

[StormJumper]

Has the poster asked the Debian team about this color settings? I think that would be first where to ask to be sure it's not a O/S that controls the fonts settings.

[Usher]

Stop thinking Windows-centric, please.
1. Debian itself has NOTHING to desktop environment (DE) settings. I did tests with three different DEs and in all three cases the results were the same: "White hexagon with embedded transparent letter F and no contrasting border".
2. What way any DE use to display only that white part of icon/png provided by the software developer? Do you think that those DEs only 256-color tray icons?

[Alex]

Hello,

I've added trayIconType setting. Open settings.ini file, locate [General] section and add there

trayIconType=monochrome

or

trayIconType=colored

This feature will be added in the next update of FDM6.

Settings.ini file is located in AppLocalDataLocation/Softdeluxe/Free Manager folder.

The actual AppLocalDataLocation path for your OS could be seen here.

[Usher]

Alex, do you think that forcing monochrome icon will remove its transparency? I'm afraid it's not that case. You should either remove transparent background from ico/png file itself or add non-transparent dark border which will contrast with the white F shape.

[lol]

why not just use the normal icon instead of that?...by normal icon i mean like this website favicon.

[Alex]

Hello,

The problem is not in transparency. Monochrome icons are used on many Unix platforms (macOS, Android, Ubuntu). Such icons looks good in both Light and Dark themes.

Some platforms do not them, and it's not that easy to detect this.

So currently I've decided to just add this hidden option, so one can just force colored icon in case the monochrome one does not suit his config.

No time/willing to make a better solution.

You can test this setting with FDM 6.14 and report some

[Alex]

why not just use the normal icon instead of that?...by normal icon i mean like this website favicon.

Just use trayIconType=colored.

[Usher]

Monochrome icons are used on many Unix platforms (macOS, Android, Ubuntu).

What does "monochrome" means? Only black and white, 16 levels of grey, anything more?
For me it's highly inconsistent - you are forcing to use the newest SSL/TLS libs, but using icons from the stone age. I would use colored icons as default with possibility to force monochrome icons. What is more, you can use black or dark grey in existing icon for the left and upper border of F letter.

Such icons looks good in both Light and Dark themes.

And here's another inconsistency - browser in FDM for Android has NO dark mode.