GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 465576
Application Icons Enhancement
Last modified: 2011-07-03 18:31:54 UTC
Some icons used are old non-tango style and quite blur due to being resized. My suggestion is to size respected icons (16x16, 22x22, 24x24, 32x32). Some function should not even use icon if there aren't clear metaphor representing eg. File > Import Photos; the camera metaphor doesn't quite reflect the Import Action. Eye of GNOME has icons that the program can reuse. Reference: [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppIcon [2] http://live.gnome.org/ThemableAppSpecificIcons [3] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines
svn trunk has a new tango application icon. What's wrong with the camera icon? What would you suggest instead? - Mike
it's great to see the tango app icon in svn trunk. Like I've said before, if we cannot find a good metaphor for the icon, please leave it as no-icon. We could come up with good metaphor icon later or we never can find one. 1. Import Camera --> leave it as no icon, seems to me there is no good metaphor yet 2. Catalogue --> This icon is old style and the metaphor is ambigous, is this a normal book instead a catalogue? However this icon can be redesigned with good metaphor, I will ask Tango ppl to help 3. Slideshow --> please replace it with F-Spot Slideshow icon 4. Comment --> kind of bad metaphor here, it looks like Text Editing, leave it as no-icon, Tango ppl will help redesign a good one 5. Zoom Width --> this is a new function that only gThumb has, no Tango style yet, It'd be easy to redesign this 6. Image and Tools functions --> there are GIMP equivalent icons, copy and paste ;) 7. Image > Transform --> reuse the new Tango style (shipped with gnome-icon-theme and tango-icon-theme) object-**** for each of 4 directions
Created attachment 93614 [details] Blur folder icons
I don't quite understand what your attachment is showing. The folder icons are supposed to be the stock gnome-fs-directory icon for the active theme (src/main.c:get_fs_icon). Are you seeing something different than the sized icons in the theme folders? Your small icons seem to be 18x18, do you have 18x18 gnome-fs-directory icons somewhere? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious; I haven't worked much with the icons... - Mike
my attachment depicts the blur icon of the folder. To be honest, I don't know much about the coding side of the program, but the icon there should be 16x16. And when the font increases, the size of the icon will be scaled larger too.
If you run gedit, and use File>Open, are the folder icons in file dialog blurred the same way as in gthumb, or are they different? - Mike
Then you must be using old version of GNOME. Since GNOME 2.18, all icons in File > Open are in size 16x16 and no blur. I think you should update to GNOME 2.18 or soon to be 2.20 to see the big difference in icon-theme.
Created attachment 93779 [details] blurry folder icon in gthumb, clear one in gedit Hmm, I was using FC6. On Fedora 7 with the "Fedora Default" theme I do see blur. gThumb is loading 22x22 icons and down-scaling to 18x18. I'm not sure why... A screenshot comparing gthumb to gedit is attached. gedit icons are not blurred. - Mike
From screenshot - gThumb = 18x18 gedit = 16x16 My gnome icon set has 16x16 22x22 24x24 32x32 So... why is gThumb asking for 18x18? - Mike
OK, the blur is fixed in trunk now. GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR -> GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU for folder icons. - Mike
well, if it's fixed then good lord, btw, i am not a coder but I am just wondering does the icon scale up if the application font is large, it would be weird if the font is large and the folder icon is fixed 16x16. I am talking about size respect here. For other icons, it'd be great if you can use GIMP 2.33 beta icons for Image function.
I don't think the icon size scales up with font size. I believe that the theme can override the default sizes for "GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU" for example, but I'm not 100% sure about that - never tried it. Can you collect and attach the icons that you are suggesting for replacement? - Mike
version 2.12 doesn't have this issue anymore