GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 615954
actions/system-shutdown missing hires
Last modified: 2013-03-20 14:50:28 UTC
Some icons are only available no larger than 48x48 and thus look very blurred when used by applications (e.g. launchers like gnome-do) that expect them to be at least 128x128. For instance the following icons look very blurred in gnome-do, since their highest resolution is 48x48: - actions/system-run.png - actions/view-refresh.png - actions/system-shutdown.png By contrast, these icons look ok, since they are also available in 256x256: - actions/system-lock-screen - actions/system-log-out - actions/system-search Why are not all icons available in 256x256?
High res variants of the icon require much more time to design than the small sizes. Most of the icons in teh action context didn't need to be designed at highres. But gnome-do is an exception.
Let's use this bug to keep track of which naming specs base set icons need an high resoltion version.
Gnome Do is not the only application benefiting from larger icons, many applications benefit from freely scalable icons (and should understand to themselves carry the consequences of "scaling up"). Some icons are still exactly the same but not available in SVG as they were before, for example system-run. In this way, it is a regression.
It surelly is a regression, but we cannot add back the scalable svgs as it will clash with 256x256 scalables, our only option is to produce the high resolution versions, but as Jakub said it's a very time consuming process and we are lacking man power. It woud be great to have a list of the most visible icons missing, so we can somehow prioritize the making of the new stuff or even better having more people helping with the artwork :-)
I do not completely understand why SVG fallbacks cannot be added for the icons that don't have a 256 pixel version. That must be a purely technical thing relating to the workflow and/or build system. I wish that the old SVG icons were there as fallbacks for the icons that did not receive the wonderful detailed 256 pixels treatment. In fact, I think too detailed action icons is just against the spirit of the icons. I am developing Kupfer, another "keystroke launcher", and our icon policy says: __"Actions should have stylized, simple icons."__ http://kaizer.se/wiki/kupfer/Manual/#icon-guidelines
This seems to be a GNOME 3 blocker. (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-January/msg00170.html). However, the only place we currently use the 256x256 size is in the alt-tab switcher. Time is everything. What icons do we need to focus on for that?
App launchers are key to have. Off the top of my head: Dictionary Empathy Evince EOG all the GNOME Games File Roller Sound Juicer Totem (Gnote/Tomboy)
A bunch of those seems to be in pretty good shape already [1] (Evince, EOG, Sound Juicer) so we just need to file followup bugs to fix those in the right packages (Depends on in bugzilla is great for this). I'm currently working on Tomboy, but moving forward a bit slowly. [2] 1. http://gitorious.org/tango-icons/tango-icons/trees/master/apps/hicolor/256x256/apps 2. http://gitorious.org/tango-icons/tango-icons/blobs/master/apps/src/tomboy.svg
[Removing GNOME3.0 target as decided in release-team meeting on March 03, 2011. This report has an "important" categorisation for GNOME3.0 but is not considered a hard blocker. For querying use the corresponding whiteboard entry added.]
Added deps for tomboy and devhelp bugs. Transmission is already fixed! https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/4088
Seems we're only missing actions/system-shutdown.png now, but since GNOME doesn't use this it isn't a big deal.
Finally added system-shutdown. Closing.