black tray icon is barely visible in gnome

[mixtur]

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📝 Description

When there are active notifications the icon becomes green and its clearly visible, by when not - it is black and I can't even tell if the app is running or not.

Maybe make default icon white on dark themes. Or add white background or shadow below the icon.

🪜 Steps To Reproduce

Start the app on any recent Ubuntu with Gnome and dark theme.

Gitify Version

5.12.1

Operating System

Linux

GitHub Account

GitHub Cloud

📸 Screenshots

[setchy]

Thanks for reporting @mixtur - certainly not by design, so we'll look to fix asap 😄

Would you sharing a screenshot of the Gitify window with the appearance setting set as System. I don't have readily access to a Ubuntu machine to confirm myself.

[mixtur]

With new notification

Without notifications

[setchy]

Thank you for the quick response.

Perhaps we can add some special handling for platform === linux, nativeTheme === DARK to use a custom tray icon 🤔.

On other platforms, like macOS, the icon seems to automagically be inverted based on the theme

[mixtur]

Thank you for the quick response.

Thank you for Gitify:) That is why I respond fast

[setchy]

Is it fair to assume that when using light system theme on Ubuntu, the Gitify tray icons are visible?

[mixtur]

Just tried it. The answer is no.

Many parts of the interface indeed become white on white theme, but not the top bar for some reason.

Maybe I am not representative.

I can only speak for what I see. I am on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. There is also Gnome Tweaks installed on my system. It might mess with the theme.
Don't know what will happen on stock Ubuntu.

[mixtur]

Noted that the icon in main menu is very visible. Maybe some variation of that could work.

[setchy]

Over the weekend I setup a Ubuntu Desktop VM and was able to reproduce