Bug 713902

Summary: Icon ugliness in gnome-shell "Applications" overview
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2 Reporter: Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: dimstar, vuntz, zaitor
Version: Factory   
Target Milestone: Factory   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Bug Depends on: 722644    
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Description Atri Bhattacharya 2011-08-24 06:27:06 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

Applications included in the default (12.1 M4+) Gnome pattern (and Live-CD) but displaying very blurred out and ugly icons on the Gnome-shell are noted here. Often this is due to the application not having icons of higher resolution (64x64, 128x128 and 256x256).

List of applications with ugly icons:-
1. Desktop effects (probably will be dropped? Low priority)
2. Freecell
3. GNOME Phone Manager
4. Install/Remove Software
5. Linux 32-bit terminal
6. Midnight commander
7. Printing
8. XSane
9. xstroke

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Atri Bhattacharya 2011-08-24 06:29:29 UTC
Could someone please confirm if it is only an issue with some applications missing the high-res icons or something more than that? I can then go about fixing this application-by application.

Thanks.
Comment 2 Dominique Leuenberger 2011-08-24 07:15:13 UTC
Atri, this indeed should be missing hires icon files. Thanks for picking this up.
Comment 3 Atri Bhattacharya 2011-08-24 21:24:22 UTC
Upstream bug for freecell icons:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657280
Comment 4 Atri Bhattacharya 2011-08-24 22:09:59 UTC
Submitted to GNOME:Apps the fix for gnome-phone-manager, request id 79709
Comment 5 Atri Bhattacharya 2011-08-25 08:44:11 UTC
Submitted aisleriot to GNOME:Factory, fixes (temporarily) the freecell icon.
Request #79730
Comment 6 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-08-25 09:00:11 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (713902) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/79729 Factory / gnome-phone-manager
Comment 7 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-08-25 11:00:18 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (713902) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/79744 Factory / aisleriot
Comment 8 Atri Bhattacharya 2011-08-27 14:04:45 UTC
Icon for "Printing" fixed by request 79741 for system-config-printer.
Comment 9 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-09-11 19:00:19 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (713902) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/81853 Factory / desktop-data-openSUSE
Comment 10 Bjørn Lie 2011-09-11 19:04:05 UTC
smolt is in the default pattern too is it not?
Comment 11 Vincent Untz 2011-10-07 08:47:36 UTC
Libreoffice icons tracked in bug 722644.
Comment 12 Vincent Untz 2011-10-07 12:15:37 UTC
The yast icon is also not that good: bug 722689.
Comment 13 Vincent Untz 2011-10-13 12:33:54 UTC
So remaining issues are:

 Linux 32-bit terminal
 Midnignt commander
 Xsane
 xstroke
 libreoffice (bug 722644)
 yast (bug 722689)
Comment 14 Atri Bhattacharya 2011-10-20 15:14:50 UTC
sr #88862 to improve smolt icons

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/88862
Comment 15 Atri Bhattacharya 2011-10-21 10:22:50 UTC
Unfortunately the entire suite of games with the package gnome-games does not install hi-res icons either (max size 48x48). Sigh...
Comment 16 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-10-26 15:00:07 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (713902) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/89405 Factory / xchat
Comment 17 Johannes Meixner 2011-11-02 16:43:01 UTC
Accepted submitrequest 89698
home:badshah400:branches:Printing/hplip -> Printing/hplip
and forwarded this together with the
"add libtool as buildrequire" from coolo
as submitrequest 89963
Printing/hplip -> openSUSE:Factory/hplip
Comment 18 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-11-02 17:00:21 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (713902) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/89963 Factory / hplip
Comment 19 Dominique Leuenberger 2012-06-26 21:02:21 UTC
Moving to 12.2: we won't ever release an online-update for fixed icons anyway :)

Might be good to get a clear list again of what is still missing now.
Comment 20 Atri Bhattacharya 2012-06-30 03:30:04 UTC
On the default installation, and even after pulling in the rather large stack of recommended applications, almost all the icons look great on the shell now. There are a few exceptions of course:-
1. YaST icon: nothing we can do about that, bnc#722689
2. xstroke: coolo promised he would drop this from the LiveCD and default patterns, bnc#756777
3. qt4 settings (qtconfig): the worst icon of them all, but there is no way that I see to generate a hi-res icon for this one. We have to live with this one I guess.
4. Midnight Commander: no icon source or hi-res icon available. I found no way to do generate hi-res icons for this one.
5. openJDK stack: haven't had a very detailed look at this, but they only have low pixel icons in their tarball.

...and those are all the offending ones.

I am also tracking individual (GNOME) apps for their icons on their upstream bug tracker:-
1. Latexila: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679174
Comment 21 Atri Bhattacharya 2012-06-30 10:15:09 UTC
Marking as fixed, after removing dependecny on bnc#722689.