ICON'S Appearance

[aishsarathy]

Hi ,

Under the default Ubuntu theme in Ubuntu 11.04, even the transparent Icons appear with a white background.

Is it because the theme is black and I use a black icon?

[Sonsum]

Hi ,

Under the default Ubuntu theme in Ubuntu 11.04, even the transparent Icons appear with a white background.

Is it because the theme is black and I use a black icon?

I'm not sure what your problem could be, but there is a newer version of Ubuntu available. You could try updating to 11.10 and see if that fixes your problem.

[Copper Bezel]

How do you mean "background" here? Does the icon appear in a white square, or does it simply have a white outline or "halo" of some sort?

[aishsarathy]

Exactly!!
The icons appear inside a white square!!!I immediately need a way out

[Copper Bezel]

I don't honestly know. That's really, really weird, particularly if you're using the default icon set. Those image files have transparency, and they're rendered that way by the GTK applications, including the panel. If they're not displaying with transparency, I'd guess that there was something missing or damaged in the libraries, but that's still really, really weird.

Have you tried creating a separate user account and seeing if the same problem happens there?

[aishsarathy]

The default tray icons are proper with the transparency retained.
This is the case with the my application which sets a transparent icon on the tray.
My application's icon comes within a white square.