GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 314758
Evolution icon on panel: unreadable!
Last modified: 2005-09-09 16:56:28 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Breezy + Garnome Currently, the panel (set to 24px here) _always_ displays Evolution's icon in a scaled down svg version although there is a very nice 24x24 version. The svg icon looks nice, but it is nearly impossibe to distinguish the white letter from the panel background (Clearlooks default theme), making it unreadable and uncomfortably for the eyes. The 24x24 version is much better, because it has a thicker outline. There are 16x16 and 32x32 versions of that icon, but they seem to be rendered versions of the svg and don't work either. What I would like to see are the 16x16 and 32x32 versions remade in style of the current hicolor/24x24/apps/evolution.png (simple and thick outline), perhaps use the icon from #171368 for the 48x48 version (currently missing anyway) and change the svg to the same style as the others (envelope, clock and whatever-card)
Created attachment 51506 [details] Screenshot Top: currently displayed icon Bottom: the 24x24 version from hicolor - much better
While you're at it... all evolution icons are in hicolor/*/apps/evolution.png, but the svg version is installed in gnome/scalable/apps/evolution.png which should also be fixed
Even better 48x48 version here: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/images/48/summary.png
Commited the 24x24 version, removed 32x32 (the svg will have to be good enough there) and fixed the hicolor path issue. The old version doesn't reflect the current logo.
The panel still displays the svg icon, even if there is a fitting (much better, thanks!) 24x24 version. I can reproduce this with other launchers as well, for example, if i copy some svg named "image-viewer.svg" to the scalable folder, the eog launcher will use that svg icon, regardless of which other low-pixel bitmap versions are available. Is this the expected behaviour for "scalable"? IMHO if there is a special low-res bitmap version, that one should be used and not the scalable icon.
That's definitely not something that should happen. It appears to be doing this for launchers only as my trash applet is using 24x24 bitmap is the panel is 24 in size.
Actually let me open up a proper bug for this
filed as Bug #315841