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Hello Ralph,

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On 2012-03-13 20:55, Ralph Mueck wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately, I'm not really familiar with freedesktop.org icon
> standard, but I digged in /usr/share/icons and it seems that some
> (not all) apps ship icons in different sizes:
> 
> For example, iceweasel's icon is shipped in 16x16, 32x32, 48x48,
> 64x64, 128x128 and even in vector graphics (.svg).
> 
> When searching for "iceweasel.png" in /usr/share/icons I get the
> following output:
> 
> ./hicolor/16x16/apps/iceweasel.png
> ./hicolor/32x32/apps/iceweasel.png
> ./hicolor/64x64/apps/iceweasel.png
> ./hicolor/scalable/apps/iceweasel.svg
> ./hicolor/48x48/apps/iceweasel.png
> ./hicolor/128x128/apps/iceweasel.png
> 
> So I guess these are the sizes that should be shipped with the
> package as other applications like Icedove, Pidgin or Gimp provide
> similar icon sizes.
> "Similar" due to the fact that most apps differ in variety of
> different icon sizes, e.g. Gimp ships with:
> 
> ./hicolor/16x16/apps/gimp.png
> ./hicolor/32x32/apps/gimp.png
> ./hicolor/64x64/apps/gimp.png
> ./hicolor/scalable/apps/gimp.svg
> ./hicolor/48x48/apps/gimp.png
> ./hicolor/24x24/apps/gimp.png
> ./hicolor/22x22/apps/gimp.png
> 
> I really have no idea why different applications ship with several
> icon sets in different sizes, but as most applications' icons look
> nice in Gnome's applications tab (see link below), I think the main
> point of the matter is the scalable icon.
> 
> So maybe it will already do when integrating a scalable icon?
> 
> Here's a screenshot of the "problem":
> 
> http://www.rmueck.de/img/gnome3_apps.png
> 
> As you can see, the htop icon looks a bit crappy compared to other icons.
> But nevertheless, there are some apps like Filezilla that have the
> same problem.
> 
> I hope the issue can be resolved with a scalable icon.
> Maybe the following link can help, too:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/0.10/

Thank you for the info, I forwarded the report upstream.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer



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