GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 450444
Gnumeric needs tango icons
Last modified: 2008-08-28 20:08:50 UTC
Since all GNOME desktop is going to following the Freedesktop.org standards, Gnumeric needs new icons. The main and the application-specific icons should follow http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppIcon and http://live.gnome.org/ThemableAppSpecificIcons. Other information:
Created attachment 90531 [details] Proposed main icon
Seems reasonable. I've put it on the list of 'stuff to do' before 1.8
I've used these for the win32 icon pack. Hopefully we can get the icons in for 1.7.12.
Created attachment 101655 [details] [review] Patch to add icons This patch adds the necessary autotools bits to install the icons and also changes the .desktop and the GtkWindow to use them. I'm not aware of any other uses of the icons but let me know if I've missed something.
Created attachment 101656 [details] Directory structure for icons A note: it would be great if Vinicius (or someone else with graphical skill) could create a 24x24 icon. I know the 22x22 is there but some things still use 24x24 and it will try to scale up the 22x22 if it isn't there. I've included a 24x24 icon of that size that I created simply by scaling up the 22x22 SVG but it could use some improvement.
In the Tango Desktop Project Icon Theme guidelines[1] there is an information regarding 22x22 and 24x24 sizes: > Historically Gnome uses 24×24 size (which is ¼ of 48×48); just adding a 1 pixel empty space on all sides [of 22x22 icon] can make Tango icons useful on the Gnome desktop in the transition phase. One can easily do this with imagemagick: > convert -bordercolor Transparent -border 1x1 tango_size.png gnome_size.png Thank you.
Created attachment 101886 [details] Directory structure for icons Here's an updated tarball for the directory structure containing the properly-created 24x24 icon. Everything should now be ready to commit.
*** Bug 475406 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just found out that under Windows, Gnumeric is still using the file gnumeric-gnome.png (located in share\pixmaps\gnumeric) to display as the task icon instead of win32-gnumeric.ico This is why the icon showing on the application window and the task bar is still the old icon instead of the new one by Vinicius. Worst, it is interpolating the 48x48 image to create the 16x16 icon shown (or 32x32 under Emerge Desktop). That is why it always looked worse than the icon embedded in the application (showing in the Windows shortcuts).
Patch has been applied to trunk, and will be in 1.9.1
*** Bug 463120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***