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I use Synergy to sync mouse and keyboard between desktops.

My question is, how do I change the Synergy indicator icons in Unity?

For reference, I am using the Faenza icon theme, and this is what my indicator bar looks like in Unity: current unity panel http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/old-panel.png

I have made Faenza styled replacements for the three icon states of Synergy.
disconnected icon http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/synergy-disconnected.png connected icon http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/synergy-connected.png warning icon http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/warning.png
Connected example: proposed unity panel http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17323455/images/synergy-icon/new-panel.png

I have tried:

  • Naming the icons synergy-connected, synergy-disconnected and warning respectively. I got these names from the icons used in Synergy's source files
  • Resizing icons (to 16, 22, 24 and 32) and placing them in /usr/share/icons/Faenza/status/XX
    • replace XX with icon resolution
  • Placing the svg's in /usr/share/icons/Faenza/scalable
  • The above two points, but instead in the Faenza Dark folder
  • Add the svg's in ~/.icons

Thoughts:
I have thought of adding the custom icons to the source, compiling said source and installing... But that would defeat the purpose of icon themes and in the future I would want to use different icons with different icon themes without the hassle of compiling source each time; I don't think it is within the scope of this problem to consider compiling from source with custom icons.

Eliah Kagan
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loklaan
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Synergy includes their icons when compiling the executables and does not fully support app indicators in Ubuntu for chosen icon themes.

A feature request on Synergy tracker website for indicator support has been created and should be viewed/upvoted when considering this problem.

loklaan
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