Systray icon is too pixelated/blurry in 4K displays (NON Hi-DPI panels) about megasync

[baizon]

@majidazimi I had the same issue. It's because the icon is loaded before the kde notification area. I just wrote a simple script (mesasync.sh) that delays the start, and now everything works fine.

[polmr]

Sorry for the late response. I'm unable to reproduce this with plasma. however, I've found that plasma doesn't adjust megasync icon properly (megasync icon is replaced by a generic icon) when tweaking the appearance (e.g. increaseing panel size). Restarting megasync solves this.

[polmr]

In any case. The icon has a fixed size of 22x22. Although I am unable to reproduce such visible scale issues, it is clear that it won't scale perfectly given its fixed nature, although it'll be unnoticed in most cases. We are not using scalable icons to prevent compatibility issues with all different qt versions and all the desktop environments avaiable.

[sl1pkn07]

my desktop is 4K (NON-HiDPI (157x161dpi)) (3840x2160), if this help you

[polmr]

ok, that's why you notice ... this is something we'll consider, thanks @sl1pkn07.

[sl1pkn07]

any notice?

greetings

[polmr]

Hi, we have included support for high resolution screens in linux (by allowing Megasync UI to scale), for distros shipping QT >=5.6. However we aren't using scalable icons yet. This is in our TODO list with a not so high priority. We'll work on that eventually, thanks for the reminder!

[majidazimi]

I think this is also a similar problem. I'm facing it currently on Fedora 25 KDE with the latest updates.

[aldomann]

@polmr it would be nice if that also allowed to manually change the icons for those who want to have cohesive systray icons.

[polmr]

Icons are hardcoded into the executable. Installing them separately will certainly increase complexity in installers and could potentially create some issues. Plus, what's wrong with red? ;-). In any case, if someone really ... really want to change those, he can always compile megasync himself. However, we are considering using scalable icons to solve the pixelated appearance.

[polmr]

We've tried using svg status icons. Unfortunatelly we've found some incompatibilities with certain distributions/desktop environments and svg icons (e.g: Gnome Shell in Fedora 25)

[sl1pkn07]

i think i can fix the issue changing this icons:

https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync/blob/4cfa9c42a38c003e29eebbb5ce56f996fcba3f6a/src/MEGASync/gui/images/22_uptodate.png
https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync/blob/4cfa9c42a38c003e29eebbb5ce56f996fcba3f6a/src/MEGASync/gui/images/22_synching.png
https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync/blob/4cfa9c42a38c003e29eebbb5ce56f996fcba3f6a/src/MEGASync/gui/images/22_paused.png
https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync/blob/4cfa9c42a38c003e29eebbb5ce56f996fcba3f6a/src/MEGASync/gui/images/22_logging.png
https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync/blob/4cfa9c42a38c003e29eebbb5ce56f996fcba3f6a/src/MEGASync/gui/images/22_warning.png

with others with major resolution (256x256px for example) in compile time

i need test it

[sl1pkn07]

YEA. it works!

  icotool -x -i 1 login_ico.ico -o 22_logging.png
  icotool -x -i 1 tray_pause.ico -o 22_paused.png
  icotool -x -i 1 tray_sync.ico -o 22_synching.png
  cp app_64.png 22_uptodate.png
  icotool -x -i 1 warning_ico.ico -o 22_warning.png

exist SVG files for that images? for make a better conversion

EDITED: use 64x64 instead of 256x256. have same behavior
EDITED2: use icotool (from icoutils) instead of imagemagick

[polmr]

we will probably include svg icons in the next release (soon to come)

[sl1pkn07]

with 64x64px gets the same look as 256x256

changing the script posted avobe acording of this

greetings

[polmr]

svg tray icons have been incorporated in version 3.5.0