GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 742369
doesn't use high quality icon in the overview
Last modified: 2015-01-05 17:07:36 UTC
Created attachment 293804 [details] screenshot The EOG icon stands out a bit among the other Utilities icons by not using the 256x256 icon with the finer details.
I was able to fix it by moving the icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps and deleting the icon cache.
Created attachment 293805 [details] screenshot after
Oh, I didn't notice. This is probably because we added Hylke's high res icon as 256x256 PNG only back in the days and didn't update the scalable variant. IIRC the scalable variant wasn't used in the first GNOME 3.x releases for better performance. Apparently this has changed.
Created attachment 293828 [details] [review] patch to fix the issue I haven't tested this, since I don't have jhbuild up and running, but it should do the trick I hope.
Ah, okay! Prefering the PNG is still the way to go. :) I removed the scalable app icon on my system and it switched to the hires variant. Thanks! commit f7c670c29bf328071129bded4446646470e6287c Author: Andreas Nilsson <> Date: Mon Jan 5 16:34:03 2015 +0100 Remove the scalable app icon Should make the 256x256 high resolution PNG the prefered one for display in gnome-shell. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742369 --- This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.