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After some of the recent upgrades (imho to plasma-desktop, kf5 or so) the systray of pidgin is black for me. Unfortunately I can't say which package exactly triggers it (by trying a downgrade or so). It worked fine some weeks ago and showed current pidgin-status. The icon is usable (clickable) like normal and the rest of pidgin works as well. Also I found no other app which a systray-icn to show a black icon.
For pidgin, I'd encourage you to consider installing/using pidgin-indicator, which helps provide native statusnotifier support without relying on legacy xembed systray icons.
Not really "nice" imho but works. Now, for some reason, my original icon is back to non-black as well - accompanied by the new icon of this plugin. Well, at least it works for the moment. I didn't know that this plugin is meanwhile packages for Fedora. I last tried it when it wasn't yet packaged, so when I built it from source. Would you say this is a fix for the (even average) user and we can declare this ticket fixed? Or would having a proper solution still be a goal to follow (patched pidgin in the repo, hopefully even a patched version upstream, fixing the legacy-stuff, ...)? Or removing it/declaring it officially dead if it is broken beyond repair?
Once you enable pidgin-indicator, you'll likely want to disable the 'use systray icon' option (otherwise pidgin shows 2 of them, as you noticed. pidgin-indicator package is relatively new, landed in updates ~1 month ago. It's still not technically a fix the problem reported here, but I would encourage and advocate to pidgin maintainers to consider using the -indicator plugin by default (but that's not my decision)
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