i'm currently working on an icon-theme for xfce with monochrome tray- and panel-icons. the clipman plugin unfortunately uses the generic paste-icon (gtk-paste or edit-paste, can't remember now) as its trayicon, it would be a lot nicer to be able to theme that specifically. currently it's impossible for me to theme the clipman-plugin because i have a dark panel background but a bright toolbar and menus. maybe clipman could use its app-icon as a trayicon (like other apps do, e.g. xfce-dict or the notes-plugin) and the generic paste-icon only as fallback.
I once used the icon xfce4-clipman-plugin but I received later a bug report that it doesn't follow the theme icon. Indeed this icon name is not available in any external icon themes. I don't have anything against using a themed icon, and I believe I can easily check if it exists before applying it in a way to fallback safely against the gtk stock icon. However I need a better name than xfce4-clipman-trayicon. It should be even more generic and not contain xfce4. I'll have a look at Tango/Freedesktop to see what could be ideal, nonetheless any suggestion is welcome :)
> However I need a better name than xfce4-clipman-trayicon. It should be even > more generic and not contain xfce4. I'll have a look at Tango/Freedesktop to > see what could be ideal, nonetheless any suggestion is welcome :) well that's great news. i agree that my initial suggestion is not ideal, actually using xfce4-clipman-plugin primarily and gtk-paste as fallback would work for me. (since panels are usually not *huge* icon-theme-authors could distinguish between the panel and the app-icon by size. i already do that for quite a few xfce-panel-icons...) alternatively you could simply use "clipman". looking at what other apps do in this case i have to say that many use suffixes for different icon-states (like the xfpm-icons), but since clipman only has one state it only needs one icon and therefore could have this very short, generic name.
Created attachment 3160 bright and dark monochrome paste-icons to test in the panel
Lovely icons! I wondered about the naming, I think a good name could be clipman-applet (a tad more accurate) but I could go for just "clipman". I'll adapt the source code and let you know. Kind Regards.
committed in git 758c09 Hi Simon, the icon name is "clipman", if there is no such icon name in the icon theme, it falls back to "edit-paste". Cheers Mike
(In reply to comment #5) > committed in git 758c09 > > Hi Simon, > > the icon name is "clipman", if there is no such icon name in the icon theme, it > falls back to "edit-paste". > > Cheers > Mike thanks mike! will add the icon to xubuntu's icon theme right away.