This bug report seems to be more of a discussion, so setting it as such
in the Ubuntu project
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921520
Title:
Locally stored application icons don't scale well, literally and
figuratively
Status in Online service used by software center:
New
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
Currently USC uses icons delivered by app-install-data-ubuntu for
applications in Main and Universe, app-install-data-partner for
applications in Partner, and the icon_url property in the Json for
commercial applications.
Unfortunately, the app-install-data* packages don't include icons that
would be appropriate for the 96*96px space on the software item
screen, because that would increase the size of those packages. So it
shows a small icon scaled up, which looks ugly.
It would be simpler and more scalable if USC got the icons for any package,
regardless of source, from a server in a consistent way. Perhaps USC would
request something like
<http://software-center.ubuntu.com/icons/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/s/stellarium?size=96>
or
<http://software-center.ubuntu.com/icons/96/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/s/stellarium>,
and the the server would return the icon of the nearest size to what was
requested.
If USC requested any size that there wasn't an exact icon for, but
there was an SVG icon available, maybe the server would redirect to
the SVG one (so that USC could realize "oh, I have that cached
already").
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