MX-21 beta 2 feedback thread (xfce)

[JayM]

I installed beta 2 last week and just had a chance to test it for awhile this morning after installing the available updates.

1. Application icons in Docklike Taskbar are broken again. VirtualBox, SDR++ (installed from a .deb file) and VirtualRadarServer (run with mono and launching it using a system-generated launcher on the desktop) all have the grey gear icons again. SDR++ and VirtualBox were working in beta 1 after SwampRabbit packaged the bugfix version of Docklike. Maybe the package got reverted to the older version somehow?

2. Comfort themes vs. accessibility: the default light theme highlights selected items with a darkish shade of blue and black text. Very hard to read. Maybe the font color for selected items could be set to white? The comfort dark theme makes the checkboxes and their frames, if any, the same color as the background in MX Package Installer so you can't see them unless you click on an item, then the background color changes to a lighter blue (lighter than the one in the light comfort theme.) If the style puts frames around the checkboxes they need to be a lighter color so those selection boxes are visible.

[asqwerth]

I installed beta 2 last week and just had a chance to test it for awhile this morning after installing the available updates.

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2. Comfort themes vs. accessibility: the default light theme highlights selected items with a darkish shade of blue and black text. Very hard to read. Maybe the font color for selected items could be set to white?

Which apps/windows have this issue? Could you check that this only happens in QT apps like MX's own tools, eg Tweak? Anything else? I believe that gtk apps all have white text for selected items. Certainly does so for Thunar and Geany.

Anyway, I'll be experimenting on adjusting the comfort themes when I have time this week.

The comfort dark theme makes the checkboxes and their frames, if any, the same color as the background in MX Package Installer so you can't see them unless you click on an item, then the background color changes to a lighter blue (lighter than the one in the light comfort theme.) If the style puts frames around the checkboxes they need to be a lighter color so those selection boxes are visible.

Ah, I see that. Again this is a Qt app, as gtk apps show checkbox outlines in white.

Darn it.

I'm not sure how to deal with the theme so that it works better with qt apps. Maybe this could be done from the Qt app's end, especially if it's ours?

@dolphin_oracle ?

[dolphin_oracle]

@asqwerth oddly, its probably in teh gtk2.0 theming for Qt apps.

[JayM]

I installed beta 2 last week and just had a chance to test it for awhile this morning after installing the available updates.

......

2. Comfort themes vs. accessibility: the default light theme highlights selected items with a darkish shade of blue and black text. Very hard to read. Maybe the font color for selected items could be set to white?

Which apps/windows have this issue? Could you check that this only happens in QT apps like MX's own tools, eg Tweak? Anything else? I believe that gtk apps all have white text for selected items. Certainly does so for Thunar and Geany.

Anyway, I'll be experimenting on adjusting the comfort themes when I have time this week.

It was when clicking on files and directories in Thunar to copy/paste them. Sorry, I should have said that. This is with the mx-comfort theme. Text is white in the Places pane when something's selected but not in the right pane. (Attachment 1.)

Regarding MXPI in mx-comfort-dark, see attachment 2.

[JayM]

Regarding Docklike, the icon for VirtualBox started working after a reboot. My other two apps still have gear icons though if I mouse-hover over them the proper icons are displayed at the left of the apps' names.

[SwampRabbit]

@JayM its the same docklike package, I haven’t pushed a new one since that last fixed one.

VirtualBox should be fine, but let me test on a fresh install.. I see that went away, restarting the panel or logging out and back in probably would have fixed it too. VirtualBox has had this issue off and on.

As far as the other two apps, more info is needed, cause more than likely it’s a non-standard desktop file issue or similar.
I assume the issue you posted previously on GitHub has that info?

[JayM]

Yes, but I can post the desktop files here too. Here you go:

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=VirtualRadar
Comment=
Exec=mono VirtualRadar.exe
Icon=/home/jay/SDR_Apps/VirtualRadar/VirtualRadar.png
Path=/home/jay/SDR_Apps/VirtualRadar
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/usr/bin/sdrpp
Name=SDR++
Icon=/usr/share/sdrpp/icons/sdrpp.png
Comment=Software Defined Radio Receiver
Path=
StartupNotify=false

[dreamer]

1. Application icons in Docklike Taskbar are broken again. VirtualBox, SDR++ (installed from a .deb file) and VirtualRadarServer (run with mono and launching it using a system-generated launcher on the desktop) all have the grey gear icons again. SDR++ and VirtualBox were working in beta 1 after SwampRabbit packaged the bugfix version of Docklike. Maybe the package got reverted to the older version somehow?

This is a problem that appears on "modern" layouts where the launcher becomes the app icon. It might be related to one or both of these:

1. StartupWMClass in the desktop file
2. StartupNotify in the desktop file

Re: icon always opens new window instead of focus
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 44#p200804

In regards to desktop launchers and the startup notification protocol
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25497

[dreamer]

Ah, I see that. Again this is a Qt app, as gtk apps show checkbox outlines in white.
Darn it.
I'm not sure how to deal with the theme so that it works better with qt apps. Maybe this could be done from the Qt app's end, especially if it's ours?

@asqwerth
Are you sure you are looking at a gtk2 app, because it's the gtk2 theme that is responsible for Qt theming. Sadly no gtk3 integration exists for Qt so matching Qt styles will be required in the future and qt5ct to make it easy to switch between them.

[asqwerth]

Ah, I see that. Again this is a Qt app, as gtk apps show checkbox outlines in white.
Darn it.
I'm not sure how to deal with the theme so that it works better with qt apps. Maybe this could be done from the Qt app's end, especially if it's ours?

@asqwerth
Are you sure you are looking at a gtk2 app, because it's the gtk2 theme that is responsible for Qt theming. Sadly no gtk3 integration exists for Qt so matching Qt styles will be required in the future and qt5ct to make it easy to switch between them.

JayM said the problem was with mxpi. That's Qt.

So I guess I'll need to look at the gtk2.0 folder in MX comfort themes.

MX does set the env so Qt apps follow gtk2, I believe. Otherwise all the MX apps wouldn't match the gtk themes, which it mainly does.