Control: tags -1 + unreproducible moreinfo
Yes, /usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png was removed in
1:1.0.0.78~ds-3. However, as I said in the changelog, it was a dangling
symlink: there was no actual icon in the package, only a symbolic link
pointing to the gap where an icon could have been. This was left over
from a previous packaging setup, which couldn't continue to be used
because it had licensing issues.
This seems to be environment-dependent. In GNOME with
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator, it works normally: it uses an icon
looked up in the icon theme, which is downloaded as part of Steam
(normally ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/steam_tray_mono.png
which is made into a symbolic link to
~/.steam/root/deb-installer/steam-launcher/icons/48/steam_tray_mono.png).
This is also working as expected for me under XFCE, Cinnamon and MATE on
Debian unstable (tested xfce4-panel 4.20.6-1, cinnamon 6.4.13-1,
mate-panel 1.27.1-4.1+b1). Is there a desktop environment in Debian
where this issue can be reproduced?
It sounds as though on Linux Mint, Steam is using an older(?) tray icon
protocol that uses hard-coded paths in /usr/share/pixmaps, rather than
the icon theme mechanism. Debian is not responsible for derivatives like
Linux Mint, and doesn't provide support for them.
The Mint-Y icon theme is not normally installed on Debian systems, but I
see what you mean. I see that several icon themes in Debian have an icon
of this name that has been drawn by someone other than Valve and
released under an open-source license, so perhaps one of those could be
copied into the steam-installer package.
However, to be able to test that this change is working as expected,
I'll need an example of a desktop environment where this issue can be
reproduced on a current Debian system. In all of the desktop
environments I've tried, the current steam-installer is already working,
and displays a tray icon as expected.
Unfortunately we cannot simply take the same icons that are in Valve's
steam-launcher package and copy them into Debian's packaging, because
that would be copyright-infringing: they have not given us a license
under which we can legally redistribute those icons (and if they did, it
would probably not be an open-source license suitable for inclusion in
Debian contrib).
(We also cannot make /usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png a symbolic
link to a file in your home directory, because that would only work for
one specific username.)
Thanks,
smcv
