Bug 158591 - some icons in Gnome menu are hard to identify
Summary: some icons in Gnome menu are hard to identify
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 8
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Steiner
QA Contact: E-mail List
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Reported: 2006-03-16 10:31 UTC by Jiri Dluhos
Modified: 2006-10-12 14:09 UTC (History)
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A blurry icon (64.13 KB, image/png)
2006-04-24 16:02 UTC, Jiri Dluhos 		Details
Second blurry icon (65.37 KB, image/png)
2006-04-24 16:03 UTC, Jiri Dluhos 		Details
Third (probably last) blurry icon (74.94 KB, image/png)
2006-04-24 16:03 UTC, Jiri Dluhos 		Details
Action Games (scalable) (24.94 KB, image/svg+xml)
2006-05-01 13:13 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		Details
22x22px (1.17 KB, image/png)
2006-05-01 13:14 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		Details
16x16px version (703 bytes, image/png)
2006-05-01 13:14 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		Details
cd/dvd tools scalable icon (40.40 KB, image/svg+xml)
2006-05-01 18:04 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		Details
22x22px version (1.43 KB, image/png)
2006-05-01 18:05 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		Details
16x16 version (939 bytes, image/png)
2006-05-01 18:05 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		Details
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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. :-)