pidgin tray icon too large

I am pretty surprised this was never confirmed -- I've read reports of it all over the internet (though it's possibly an upstream bug). It happens also on KDE, so it's not just a GNOME thing.

What fixes it is to turn off and on the tray icon a couple of times. Obnoxious fix, but it's not so terrible if you're going to be working for long periods in the same session.

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

I am yet to notice it in 8.10.

Confirm this in 8.10. Happened after an X crash/auto-restart.

could you try on jaunty now? similar issues have been fixed there

I can reproduce this in karmic with pidgin 2.5.8 and kde 4.3.

I found a work around for this bug.

pwd
/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/tray
ll
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-08-25 18:12 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-08-25 18:12 22
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-08-25 18:12 32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-08-25 18:54 48 -> 22/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-08-25 18:12 48.bak

creating a symlink for 48 to 22 fixes the issue.

And how exactly do you do this?

Does this only affect KDE (on Karmic)?

cd /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/tray; sudo mv ./48 ./48.bak; sudo ln -s ./22 ./48

Should do it

I posted a debdiff containing a workaround for KDE on bug #346840

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7

---------------
pidgin (1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7) karmic; urgency=low

  * Don't stick the buddy list window to all desktops as some
    window managers have trouble to properly unstick it (LP: #346840)
    - debian/patches/11_buddy_list_really_show.patch
  * Always use default tray icon size on KDE (LP: #209440)
    - debian/patches/62_tray_icon_size_kde.patch
  * Use scrollbars in the preferences dialog if the screen height is
    below 700 px instead of 600 px
    - debian/patches/60_1024x600_gtkprefs.c.patch

 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:40:26 +0200

cd /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/tray
sudo mv ./48 ./48.bak
sudo ln -s ./22 ./48

Did it! (I'm using version package pidgin - 1:2.6.3 in jaunty

Karmic

Creating a symlink to 22 dir is actually not a very good idea, as the 22px icons will be overwritten with 48px icons when pidgin is upgraded. Better to just cp -R 22 48.

Still exists in latest pidgin 2.10.3, latest ubuntu
sometimes icon is too big.