GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 711382
New dark photorealistic logo icon
Last modified: 2013-12-12 20:06:50 UTC
Jakub has been kind enough to spend time redoing the Pitivi logo icon in a photorealistic way with Blender. It comes in all sizes including the humongous 512x512 version, though we depend on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69231 for that so his current patch only uses the 256² version. His patch is here: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/0001-Update-the-app-icon.patch Unfortunately I haven't had the time to test it and merge it for the 0.92 cycle, but this should happen eventually. If someone would like to test it, I want to know about the following: - Make check && make distcheck pass - The resulting tarball has all the icons - Installing systemwide from the resulting tarball installs all the icons - I would like to see a screenshot of how this looks in GNOME Shell. A potential issue I noted is the use of diagonal lines causing aliasing problems when the 512² or 256² version is scaled to 128², be it by browsers or by GIMP. Currently, the first iteration of the patch mentioned above has some errors somewhere related to makefiles, I think it tries to look for the 512 version, not sure if it checks for 256 (as said, I unfortunately hadn't had time to inspect this properly so far).
Oh yeah, and this is the initial smoke test I did: git am <0001-Update-the-app-icon.patch make clean && ./autogen.sh && make When you inspect the output you have: > checking build system type... data/icons/Makefile.am:1: error: > required directory data/icons/512x512 does not exist Relatively minor to fix/amend, but it means I haven't yet had the opportunity to review the rest of the items I listed in the description above, and thus to see if there are other gotchas awaiting us.
Sorry for the broken Makefile. I've updated the patch to include the 512, still the same URL (can't attach to bugzilla due to filesize): http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/0001-Update-the-app-icon.patch
Created attachment 263701 [details] screenshots of how the 128² size renders in GNOME Shell Hi Jakub, thanks for taking the time to correct your patch, much appreciated :) I gave it a try with a "make install" in prefix=/usr (just assuming that this will behave the same with tarballs etc.) and took these screenshots (attached) of how it looks like in GNOME Shell 3.10. It seems like the diagonal lines aliasing issue, while still a bit apparent, is much better than how it initially looked like in web browsers' or GIMP's rendering/resizing. Take a look at those screenshots and decide if this is something you wish to address or if it satisfies your tastes. If it's good enough for you, then I'd probably take your updated patch and push it "as is".
Pushed as: commit 2e56e51d14621d2b502788941657b860f0725bf3 Author: Jakub Steiner <jimmac@gmail.com> Date: Fri Oct 11 17:05:15 2013 +0200 Update the app icon - part of the gnome goal: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/HighResolutionAppIcons https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711382 Thanks so much Jakub!