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asqwerth wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:23 pm I'm away from my computer for the next few days.

Could someone check the mx19 beta 2.1 , see if the new papirus set takes over and replaces all the new MX icons with their own (usually more generic, if symlinks are used) icons?

Seems it doesn't work on MX 19, on MX 18 it looks like this:

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It works on MX 19 but only when MX Tools are opened, when viewed from Whisker menu icons are not updated.

For MX19, as we created some new icons, we also changed the name of some of the icon files that the MX app in question would look for (in their .desktop file). As MX19 has not been released, Papirus are working on the old MX18 icon filenames referenced in the desktop files. So those that hadn't changed icon filename, will show their papirus icons. Those that changed filename, will show our new icons.

As for why their set does not show up in whisker menu, maybe they didn't symlink the icon graphics to some of the smaller-sized icon sub-folders. Luckily in MX19 our updated icons will show up as the fallback for papirus icons, instead of our older icons.

Stevo wrote: Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:22 pm I've sent them up to the test repo, but that may take a day or so to appear. Grab them early here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aoI5L2 ... sp=sharing

Buster-backports has also been updating the icon package fairly often, but right now they are a month behind.

dolphin_oracle wrote:

fehlix wrote:

The update for MX17/18 is very nice, except for the MX-updater application icon in whisker menu (not the notification area) . This uses the papirus theme's icon called "mnotify-some" , which doesn't really match the look of our notification icon.

That was because in our MX17/18 version of apt-notifier, the icon assigned to this app was our original version of "mnotify-some" . At that time, Papirus did not have their own version of mnotify-some, so the app always defaulted to our original icon, ie the greenfilled box.

When Papirus devs decided to create their own icons for MX just before MX19 was released, they made their version of mnotify-some in their house style at that time, which was a blue dot for "updates available". I requested a change to ensure consistency in appearance. They kindly made greenfilled box icons for us under the name "mx-updater" (which we used for MX19) but declined to remove the house style mnotify-some icon just in case some users wanted to have both the app and notification icon use their blue dot style (they provide a script on their github page to remove hardcoding of notification area icons).

MX19's mx-updater/apt-notifier's desktop file uses "mx-updater" icon, but the mx17/18 version of the app was never changed from
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Could the mx17/18 apt-notifier app be changed just to assign the correct icon to it? Otherwise if you update to the latest papirus set, you get that weird difference in the notification and app icons.