Bug 158591

Summary:	some icons in Gnome menu are hard to identify
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Jakub Steiner <jimmac>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	A blurry icon Second blurry icon Third (probably last) blurry icon Action Games (scalable) 22x22px 16x16px version cd/dvd tools scalable icon 22x22px version 16x16 version

Description Jiri Dluhos 2006-03-16 10:31:17 UTC

The quality of icons in Gnome menu varies significantly. Some icons are very clear, but some are blurry or too dark, and hard to distinguish. I believe the original images were all equally good, but when rescaled to the small size, some of them became almost unrecognizable (especially those with small contrast and similar colors) while some went just fine.

Examples of icons that are fine: Board Games, Card Games, Epiphany...
Blurry icons: Action Games, CD/DVD Tools, Banshee
Icons with insufficient contrast/unclear shapes: File Manager, Home Folder, Nautilus

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2006-03-30 05:43:14 UTC

This is presumably the old style menu Jakub.

Comment 2 Jakub Steiner 2006-03-30 22:03:06 UTC

From the listed items, the following have all 16x16, 22x22 and a scalable version:

- File Manager 
- Home Folder
- Nautilus
- Epiphany (generic web-browser)
- Banshee

I just added the old menu applet and apart from a lot of crystal icons showing, the icons look appropriate. Can you attach a screenshot exposing the problem?

Comment 3 Bodo Bauer 2006-04-24 13:21:41 UTC

Shall we close this, or is there progress expected? Seems to be dead to me...

Comment 4 Jiri Dluhos 2006-04-24 15:51:04 UTC

I have just installed RC2, and the icons are much better, excellent work!
Only two or so icons are remaining, I will provide screenshots.

Comment 5 Jiri Dluhos 2006-04-24 16:02:45 UTC

Created attachment 79716 [details]
A blurry icon

Comment 6 Jiri Dluhos 2006-04-24 16:03:14 UTC

Created attachment 79717 [details]
Second blurry icon

Comment 7 Jiri Dluhos 2006-04-24 16:03:50 UTC

Created attachment 79718 [details]
Third (probably last) blurry icon

Comment 8 Jakub Steiner 2006-05-01 13:13:36 UTC

Created attachment 81011 [details]
Action Games (scalable)

Not exactly sure where to put these if at all (I don't consider multi-level menu as very usable), but attaching the artwork anyway.

Comment 9 Jakub Steiner 2006-05-01 13:14:02 UTC

Created attachment 81012 [details]
22x22px

Comment 10 Jakub Steiner 2006-05-01 13:14:17 UTC

Created attachment 81013 [details]
16x16px version

Comment 11 Jakub Steiner 2006-05-01 18:04:51 UTC

Created attachment 81067 [details]
cd/dvd tools scalable icon

Comment 12 Jakub Steiner 2006-05-01 18:05:09 UTC

Created attachment 81068 [details]
22x22px version

Comment 13 Jakub Steiner 2006-05-01 18:05:35 UTC

Created attachment 81069 [details]
16x16 version

Comment 14 Jiri Dluhos 2006-05-18 12:45:15 UTC

I think the new icons are nice :)

Comment 15 Jakub Steiner 2006-06-02 17:23:55 UTC

We are considering adding 32x32 as an optional size to the tango styleguides. As a result of this, expect more app icons to come up sharper in the start menu in the not so distant future.

Comment 16 Jiri Dluhos 2006-10-12 14:09:46 UTC

As I no more notice any unclear icons, and the icons are generally more cheerful now, I think we can close this bug as fixed. :-)