Stop messing with the icon, Valve

[Ketsuban]

The Steam icon in the notification area can't make up its mind whether it wants to have a black or a transparent background. Please stop messing with it, pick one and leave it alone. (Preferably, go with the original one on a black background - that works for everyone regardless of what your desktop looks like, whereas a transparent background only works if you have a dark-coloured taskbar.)

[Mikutron]

What? icons that have transparency are far more flexible themeing wise. I'm not really sure what you are alluding to. Its more likely your install's tray cannot consistently display the transparency properly, and displays the alpha bits as black when it fails. The steam tray icon has always been the same...

[Daw11]

I'm using kde 4.10 and the latest Steam icon looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/Ej9juYr.png

[Mikutron]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Daw11:

I'm using kde 4.10 and the latest Steam icon looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/Ej9juYr.png

eh I dont know then. Between 3 versions of windows, Lubuntu, kubuntu, and linux mint 14 I have the same "original" icon. both look alright i guess.

[Dusk of Oolacile]

I actually agree with the OP. The new icon almost looks like as if there was no icon at all. The background blends with the taskbar (or whatever) and the Steam symbol on it is almost the same color. It's a bit ugly, though who cares as long as it works. Valve should spend more time getting games on Steam and less on icon colors.

I used it with LXDE and XFCE with default Fedora theme.

[Ketsuban]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gasai Yuno's future diary:

What? icons that have transparency are far more flexible themeing wise.

The new Steam icon lacks contrast against a light background like the default XFCE panel. http://i.imgur.com/MpP6dNZ.png

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gasai Yuno's future diary:

Its more likely your install's tray cannot consistently display the transparency properly, and displays the alpha bits as black when it fails. The steam tray icon has always been the same...

Nope, XFCE displays transparency in icons just fine. When I first installed Steam for Linux when the beta started it had a black background with rounded corners, matching its normal application icon and matching what it has always looked like on Windows. I included the virtual desktop flipper so you can see the normal Steam icon.

[Rudy]

The new steam tray icon is great , Look how good it looks on my cinnamon desktop
http://i.imgur.com/TFKoi1E.jpg

It blends in perfectly with the sound and other icons there.

[LA_MERC_MadMAX]

I like the new icon; it looks great in KDE as well. I'm sure they were trying for something that would look good under any desktop.

[Dusk of Oolacile]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Roger Korby:

The new steam tray icon is great , Look how good it looks on my cinnamon desktop

Something looking good on your desktop doesn't make it great. Looking good on everyone's desktop does.

[dilworks]

Huh? In my KDE 4.8 I only get a generic document icon :(

On MATE it works fine.

[u cant cut back on funding!!!!]

The new notification icon looks amazing and I would like to personally thank whoever changed it. It's great. Well done. Excellent choice. I'm still against putting steam in the notification area though.

[e633]

MATE desktop on Linux Mint: white on white LOL!
And i still can't close steam to tray.