Need scalable copies of status icons

[fuchs]

Right now Pidgin only ships with icons up to 48x48

That's good enough for most menus Or desktop launchers in other interfaces like docks it looks blurry next to other applications.

You should consider shipping a high resolution or a scalable icon.

[deryni]

We do ship a number of svg icons in the source tarball. I'm unsure if we ship them in the release builds though. They are scattered throughout the pidgin/pixmaps/ directories as appropriate for the type of icon they are. Are those not sufficient?

There is also attachment:wiki:SpreadPidginAvatars:pidgin-white_dock.png from the SpreadPidginAvatars page.

[fuchs]

Ok I found the icons and created a Launchpad bug, let's see what they have to say about it.

But I believe the problem might still be Pidgin because the scalable icons are in subfolders, like this:

22x22/scalable/pidgin.svg 48x48/scalable/pidgin.svg

If I understand the icon theme specification (http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html) correctly, the scalable icon should rather be in one folder named scalable at the same level as the 22x22 etc directories.

[jacob.emcken]

@deryni

Yes there are alot of SVG icons in Piding but fuchs is talking about the application icon.The icon you find in your menu or on launchers (or in my case when using Gnome-Do). For this to work they must be placed right in order for external stuff to find them. Take a look at this bug report for screenshots of the problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/216460

@all

I think the reason why the SVG icons are inside the directories 16x16, 22x22, etc. is that they are used as base for the bitmap icons. (The SVG is opened and exported to the corresponding bitmap size).

Please copy the file:

pidgin/pixmaps/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/scalable/pidgin.svg

to:

pidgin/pixmaps/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pidgin.svg

That should fix the problem. Just downloaded the source for 2.5.5 where this still seems to be an issue.

[perfectska04]

I can confirm this. The pidgin icon looks blurry and pixelated when used with docks, GNOME-Do, AWN, etc.

The solution is to simply add a /scalable/apps folder with the 48px pidgin.svg in addition to the 48px bitmap in /48x48/apps as stated above.

It should be really simple to fix and it would ensure the Pidgin branding is always sharp and clear for users.

[darkrain42@…]

(In [6494e5fa63efe504f35eca454632c34a77126ac5]):
Reorganize pixmaps to ship scalable icons, including the main Pidgin icon. Refs #8556.

[darkrain42]

Hylke, could you generate scalable versions of the status icons to be installed alongside the current sizes?