Bug 430226 - Change color of the menu icon on Mac OS?
Summary: Change color of the menu icon on Mac OS?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kdeconnect
Classification: Applications
Component: common (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: macOS (DMG) Other
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Albert Vaca Cintora
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Reported: 2020-12-10 17:46 UTC by Or Schiro
Modified: 2022-03-02 12:06 UTC (History)
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Hard to see kdeconnect icon on the far left (9.89 KB, image/png)
2020-12-10 17:46 UTC, Or Schiro
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Description Or Schiro 2020-12-10 17:46:03 UTC
Created attachment 133975 [details]
Hard to see kdeconnect icon on the far left

Hello there, 

Really love kdeconnect for Mac. Thank you so much. :)

One request: Can the icon color be changed to black?

It's very hard to see otherwise.

Attaching a screenshot. 

Thank you!
Comment 1 Weixuan XIAO 2022-02-26 10:22:27 UTC
The icon seems to be intentionally set to gray when there is no device. When there is a connected device, does the color seem to be normal, as described here?

https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/merge_requests/449#note_404930
Comment 2 Weixuan XIAO 2022-03-02 12:06:40 UTC
Git commit 531418c7d2728d44175cb8e5be3b1c5925447899 by Weixuan Xiao, on behalf of Ryan Adolf.
Committed on 02/03/2022 at 12:06.
Pushed by wxiao into branch 'master'.

Change tray icon so it is the right color on MacOS

## Summary

On MacOS the system tray icon is off-color because it uses the gray-colored `kdeconnectindicatordark` icon which does not match the rest of MacOS.

![image](/uploads/430933399d9570dc1c59807e4715e87b/image.png)

I've used two patches to fix this:
1. Always use the status `KStatusNotifierItem::Passive` on MacOS. `KStatusNotifierItem` will only mark the icon as a mask (which is needed to allow it to dynamically switch between light and dark theme) [if the status is passive](https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knotifications/-/blob/cff7c337ab9a78708ac5594badb54e8f88f61a8d/src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp#L1079-1081).
2. The above should theoretically be enough to fix the issue and I swear at one point it was all that was needed. However, to fix this issue in my dev environment I also needed to pass in a `QIcon` with `setIsMask(true)` instead of setting the icon by its name. And I also use the `kdeconnectindicator` instead of `kdeconnectindicatordark` icon.

## Test Plan

The icon now renders in the correct color, regardless of whether devices are connected:

![image](/uploads/5010a07cbb5f23a286ece641c6b3879c/image.png) ![image](/uploads/2ae5d3d8aa633ebafb260febe313057c/image.png)

## Future work

Once I've verified this PR is working in the right direction, I want to look into making the icon gray (and hopefully a much easier-to-see gray) when no devices are connected!

For example, WireGuard, when not connected, looks like this:

![image](/uploads/43c2ef6bc7261431e878c9c1c05174f9/image.png) ![image](/uploads/f7587190648606df77ad3e3dde84098f/image.png)

P.S. I've been testing off the v21.12.2 tag since the master branch doesn't compile for me, so I haven't tested this change on the latest dev commit. But there should be no conflicts.

M  +3    -1    indicator/indicatorhelper_mac.cpp
M  +2    -0    indicator/main.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/commit/531418c7d2728d44175cb8e5be3b1c5925447899