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Grouped window list item become a difficult-to-see thin bar if the application specifies an unavailable icon #12307

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billyswong opened this issue Jul 24, 2024 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #12339
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Grouped window list item become a difficult-to-see thin bar if the application specifies an unavailable icon #12307

billyswong opened this issue Jul 24, 2024 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #12339
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Mint 21.3 Cinnamon

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cinnamon 6.0.4

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Always

Bug description

It is a bug taken from https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=425061
If an application specifies an icon that doesn't exist in the icon theme, no placeholder icon is given, making the application become a thin almost invisible stripe within the grouped window list.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Select "Breeze" as the icon theme
  2. Open Menu Editor via right click menu icon > Configure > Menu > Open the menu editor

Expected behavior

Although Menu Editor specifies menu-editor to be its icon and "Breeze" as a KDE icon theme doesn't have such icon, the grouped window list should have put in a placeholder icon there to balloon / fill up the window entry, not leaving it as a extremely narrow stripe that's hard to see and hard to click.

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@billyswong billyswong added the BUG label Jul 24, 2024
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fredcw commented Jul 24, 2024 •
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The icon needed is called alacarte. A default icon should be added to cinnamon package. If someone cares to choose one, I guess we can add it here: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/tree/master/files/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps

I haven't looked into adding a placeholder icon in Grouped Window List but [email protected] applet has the same problem. Cassia Window List and CobiWindowList applets also have missing icons but a wider gap is used.

Since an app not having a default icon is a bug in itself and also extremely rare, I would say that adding an alacarte icon to cinnamon would be the easiest solution.

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Thank you for correction in the icon name in use. I found the Breeze icon set contains an icon called preferences-desktop-menu-edit. Somebody ought to patch the alacarte to link to preferences-desktop-menu-edit in Breeze icon set.

fredcw added a commit to fredcw/cinnamon that referenced this issue Aug 6, 2024
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GWL: Set reasonable min width for panel item in case app icon is miss…
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Fixes: linuxmint#12307
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GWL: Set reasonable min width for panel item ... fredcw/cinnamon
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