Alessandro, The SystemPreferences icon has always had an issue with WindowMaker. It's just a normal tiff, but, for some reason, it shows up as color inverted when docked in the WindowMaker dock, but normal when the application is started. When you first start an application in GNUstep the icon gets written to ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/CachedPixmaps when the application is launched. I forget where precisely in the code this occurs.
I believe this corruption might have something to do with your problem as the second time it is invoked it reads the version of the icon that was cached in the directory I indicated above. There are a number of possible solutions: 1) Fix the tiff so that WindowMaker doesn't have an issue 2) Fix WindowMaker (or GNUstep, in case the caching is happening in our code... I am not sure it is) I have included a screenshot of what is happening on my system to illustrate what I'm referring to. Please find it attached. I hope some of this additional information helps. Yours, GC On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 4:32 AM Alessandro Sangiuliano <alex2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > This morning I had more time to do better test. > > I have to add that in my case is just SystemPreferences icon that is not > showed at first start. > > With Gorm and ProjectCenter, the window is showed as expected at first run! > > Maybe is just a little bug relative to SystemPreferences in my case, or > just some request that SystemPreferences is doing and I'm not handling. > > Alex. > > ------------------------------ > *Da:* Gnustep-dev <gnustep-dev-bounces+alex22_7=hotmail....@gnu.org> per > conto di Alessandro Sangiuliano <alex2...@hotmail.com> > *Inviato:* sabato 17 ottobre 2020 04:59 > *A:* undefined <gnustep-dev@gnu.org> > *Cc:* undefined <gnustep-dev@gnu.org> > *Oggetto:* R: windowmaker - application icon missing at first start > > I wrote this email some days ago to Fred privately, because I was thinking > that the problem was relative to my window manager that is young and ealyy > stage, so i post here too bcause the problem is quite similar. > > Hi Fred, > > I write becaus ethe gnustep support in uroswm is almost completed, but > there are few things to fix, actually in the miniwindow managment. Explain > it with words would be a bit complex especially with my english, so I made > a gif pic to share with you. > > Here is the lin that will expire after one month: > > https://ibb.co/3ND5Dhw > > Now i explain the problem in steps amd you will noticed them in the gif: > > 1) First time run uroswm > 2) First time a GNUstep App > 3) When the App is first time started the miniwindow on the left-bottom > corner doesn't draw the icon, or better, it draws the icon but disappers > quite soon. The icon just appears for some instants and then disappers. > 4) I close the App > 5) I run again the app > 6) At this point, the App is started for the second time, ll works as > expecetd and the miniwindow draws the icon ans show it as expected. > > Don't be scared by bad colors in the gif i just set low quality to the > recorder. > > Why at the first start of theapp the icon is not painted as we expects? > Maybe at the first run GS is doing some particular requests or > setting/asking for soe extended window manager hints? > > Thank you, > Alex > > > ------------------------------ > *Da:* Gnustep-dev <gnustep-dev-bounces+alex22_7=hotmail....@gnu.org> per > conto di Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> > *Inviato:* venerdì 16 ottobre 2020 11:40 > *A:* gnustep-dev@gnu.org <gnustep-dev@gnu.org> > *Oggetto:* windowmaker - application icon missing at first start > > Hi! > > I noticed we recently have a strange behaviour, which is slightly > different from setup (= installation on different computers) to setup I > have > > The first time I start a GNUstep application with windowmaker (I mean > the first GNUstep app started ever after X11 start essentially) it has a > bad icon. > - on some setup it has a "generic" icon by windowmaker > - on other setups it has a black looking icon, as only the "mask" of the > icon, the contours are drawn > > A restart of the app and then starting any other app, fixes that. > > > This was not happening before. I think it is related to at least this > commit - merge: > > > https://github.com/mozilla/newtab-dev/raw/6be44da368fb869a3d3e1975f515857352a7d9fc/browser/modules/ProcessHangMonitor.jsm > > Can you reproduce? How is it for you? > > Riccardo > > > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron https://gf.me/u/x8m3sx - My GNUstep GoFundMe https://teespring.com/stores/gnustep - Store
