ksteamtrayicon 1.0.5.post1

Updates the Steam tray icon to match the current Plasma color scheme.

KSteamTrayIcon

KSteamTrayIcon is a small Python background application for KDE Plasma 6 that keeps the Steam tray icon in sync with the desktop color scheme.

How does it work?

By default, Steam displays a tray icon that looks fine on dark panels, but is hard to see on light Plasma themes.

The application listens for changes on the current desktop color scheme and then acts as follows:

• if it detects that the current theme has a light color scheme, it overrides the default Steam tray icon by placing a dark-colored variant in $HOME/.local/share/icons/steam_tray_mono.png.
• if it detects that the current theme has a dark color scheme, it removes the dark-colored file, which prompts Steam to change its tray icon back to the default light-colored one.

Requirements

• KDE Plasma 6
• Python 3
• dbus-next (python library)
• pipx*

Note: by default, pipx is not required on Arch Linux and its derivatives if you run setup.sh install without specifying the --force-pypi flag (more information below).

Install

First, check the contents of setup.sh and if everything seems ok for you, simply run the following command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcotuliomatos/ksteamtrayicon/main/setup.sh | bash -s -- install

The installation script will check if all required dependencies are available in your system and will guide you through the setup process.

For all distributions except Arch Linux (and distros based on it), the setup.sh install command will install the KSteamTrayIcon PyPI package using pipx.

For Arch Linux and Arch-based distro, the setup.sh install command defaults to install the KSteamTrayIcon AUR package, which doesn't require pipx at all. If, for whatever reason, you prefer to install the package from PyPI instead, just use the setup.sh install-from-pypi command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcotuliomatos/ksteamtrayicon/main/setup.sh | bash -s -- install-from-pypi

Uninstall

Check the contents of setup.sh and if everything seems ok for you, simply run the following command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcotuliomatos/ksteamtrayicon/main/setup.sh | bash -s -- uninstall

License

MIT