On 09/26/2014 12:19 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > At the moment applications have to provide an icon >= 32x32px in size > to be included in the AppStream metadata and shown in the software > center. This is *tiny* on a HiDPI screen, so should I mandate that all > applications ship a 64x64 (and ideally, 128x128/64x64@2 also) icon for > the shell and gnome-software, or should I just pad+scale icons for the > HiDPI case and make them look ridiculous? I'd say we should definitely include 128x128 icons in the metadata for hidpi support -- one set of 64x64 icons for regular screens and another set of 128x128 icons for hidpi screens. I don't think we can _require_ that every app ship a 128x128 icon at this point though. If they aren't available, we should just upscale the low res icons for hidpi screens and have appstream-builder emit a warning to make sure maintainers are aware that their apps are missing important icons. > I don't think we can, or should, design a software center to accept > the lowest common denominator when it comes to icon sizes; we're doing > really well now with AppData coverage[1] and I think we can raise the > quality of upstream and packaged icons in the same way. > > My proposal would make 64x64 the smallest icon size we show in the > software center, and this will still be slightly blurry[2] in the > HiDPI case. This would affect 539 (over half of all desktop > applications) packaged in Fedora. It's clear we can't just do nothing, > as more and more devices will have HiDPI screens, and more and more > icons will look crazy small and fuzzy. > > I don't think it's a good idea to mass-file 539 bugs, nor do I want to > contact 539 upstream maintainers. 127 packages only ship a 32x32 icon, > and that might be a good starting point for contacting upstreams or > filing bugs. Yes, I'd say it's time to cut off apps with 32x32 icons. Padding 48x48 icons to 64x64 might still be OK though, especially since the number of affected apps is quite large. In any case, should emit warnings for missing 64x64 and 128x128 icons to make sure maintainers know there's something missing and have time to prepare. -- Kalev -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
