Skype Notifications

[Foggalong]

When Skype gets a notification it's reverting to the default icon with the little orange dot rather than the blue status icon that this script switches it to

[bilelmoussaoui]

I will need the result of ls -R /tmp/sni-qt_* so i can check if the icon names are correct or not

[Foggalong]

I've found this unthemed icon with the name skype_18942_0fce05395e6040b3fd0838935b3aa115.png. I'm guessing there'll be one of these icon for each number, but that they only show up after they've been seen for the first time?

[bilelmoussaoui]

Qt indicator uses tmp folder to store the icons. The icons will be shown in tmp once they're used and will be removed when you close the application. For example in this case you've skype_x_y.png. In .local/share/sni-qt/icons/ you will need to create a folder name skype and put the icon y.png there. The x changes in /tmp/ whenever you reopen the application which makes it impossible to theme without the patched version of sni-qt. Can you check if 0fce05395e6040b3fd0838935b3aa115.png exists in .local/share/sni-qt/icons/skype/?

[andia89]

It does but is a symlink. Maybe symlinks are no good? I can reproduce this btw. :(

[bilelmoussaoui]

This should be fixed now :P

[andia89]

No. Symlinks aren't the problem (at least for me). The same thing happens if all files are regular files...

[bilelmoussaoui]

Symlinks were not the problem, remove everything in .local/share/sni-qt/icons/skype and run the script again. This issue is due to some icons that were symlinked to themselves

[andia89]

Nope. Same as before... A lot of symlinks are broken though in .local share/sni-qt/icons/skype

[bilelmoussaoui]

Can you paste the list of icons in tmp/sni-qt_skype?

Le 9 juil. 2015 à 19:35, wa4557 notifications@github.com a écrit :

Nope. Same as before...

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[andia89]

The problem is this not /tmp but there are a lot of icons missing, to which symlinks are pointing to, which breaks a lot of symlinks.

I tried to figur out why this happens, but no luck so far

0d96a65d843060dab4836712307a256b.png
fd56304306a9b229dbdaf4cf7dc4cbc7.png
4fb7a30c39fb0b95f300952ad4df27dc.png

are missing. It seems that the script is not working for those :(

[bilelmoussaoui]

@wa4557 can you try it now?

[andia89]

Ok the problem was that the script somehow corrupted the source icons in the icon theme (how can this possibly happen, the script only reads the file?). Anyways after repairing those files in the icon theme it works now

[andia89]

Is it possible, that the script tried to symlink a symlink back to the icon theme, and therefore broke the icon? @Foggalong You have to remove everything from .local/share/sni-qt/ repair (i.e. overwrite) the icons in your icon theme and run the script again. Then it should work

[bilelmoussaoui]

This is somehow possible :/ Because those broken icons were symlinked to themselves

[bilelmoussaoui]

@Foggalong can you confirm this?

[bilelmoussaoui]

Is this fixed or not yet?

[Foggalong]

I don't actually get enough notifications to actually test this :(

[bilelmoussaoui]

I will keep this open until you test it 👍

[Foggalong]

First notification working! :D not sure if it works for if you have more than one notification though - don't know how high up Skypes icons for the counter go :/

[bilelmoussaoui]

Nice!! I will close this 👍

[andia89]

Skype doesn't have a real counter for notifications. Even for more messages only the orange "1" is displayed