On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote:
> > Am 07.03.2014 18:16, schrieb Ryan Lerch: > > IMHO, the proposal was less of > > > > "let's remove ugly icons" > > > > and more > > > > "lets hide applications that use icons in this particular format that > doesn't support the features of the software > > application" > > IMHO you did not read the proposal itself > scroll down - i pasted it again in this message > IMHO Ryan is exactly correct - and you're coming off as a bit condescending. The proposal is about a particular image format which doesn't scale well to the size we need in the software center and doesn't have an alpha channel. It's not a judgement on the design of the icon. > > > It is still possible to have ugly icons, they just have to be in PNG, > GIF or SVG format > > and that is why "and look very bad" defined by the format is flawed > if you take a small bitmap and scale it up it will look bad, no matter how well it's designed otherwise. That's just a limitation of the format, and saying so is not flawed. > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: Proposal: Don't show applications in the software center with XPM > icons > Datum: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:41:00 +0000 > Von: Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> > An: Development discussions related to Fedora < > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > XPM is an old standard for icons used by a very small number of > desktop packages in Fedora. The XPM icons are normally small, mostly 8 > bit, and usually without an alpha channel and look very bad in the > software center. > > I'm going to propose for F21 that we drop support for XPM in the > metadata extractor and only show apps with GIF, PNG and SVG icons. The > list of affected GUI applications is here: > > TeXmacs > cycle > flamerobin > gnurobots > linsmith > mup > pari-gp > pgadmin3 > qtel > qucs > xsensors > > As usual, I'd like to push packagers to get upstream to ship a more > modern (and high resolution, *with* alpha channel) icon in PNG or SVG > format, but packagers can also just replace the icon referenced in the > .desktop file if upstream is unwilling / dead and a good replacement > is available. > > Comments welcome, > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >
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