Bugzilla – Bug 235712
Low resolution thunderbird icon
Last modified: 2008-06-25 09:23:58 UTC
This bug is actually a duplicate of bug 132632, however, I can't add a comment there. The problem persists on OpenSUSE 10.2. The problem is that the Thunderbird icon used in the panel or on the desktop of KDE has a very low resolution. Steps to reproduce: - drag Thunderbird from the KDE menu onto the desktop Suggested solution: The problem is actually not the icon itself, but the file /usr/share/applications/MozillaThunderbird.desktop that contains the name of the icon file. The file contains the line icon=thunderbird Unfortunately, KDE will map this to the file "thunderbird.xpm", which contains a lowres icon. The problem is most apparent when you drag Thunderbird to the desktop: the icon that appears is pretty bad. When you replace the above line by icon=thunderbird.png the problem is fixed. Probably it would make sense to replace the above line in the MozillaThunderbird.desktop-file in the next release?
(In reply to comment #0) > When you replace the above line by > > icon=thunderbird.png > > the problem is fixed. No, this will break everything for non-KDE users because thunderbird.png is a KDE icon. This icon is part of the kdebase3 package, it is not included in e.g. a default GNOME installation. Besides that, the image file name endings are left out on purpose in order to allow theming with png, svg and xpm formats with a single .desktop file. You should instead just ship a better icon with the MozillaThunderbird package.
We can only ship what's delivered (or at least approved) by the Mozilla Corporation but we can check what's possible.
*** Bug 132632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Upstream has been aware of this for some time: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262265 Since upstream controls the trademark, I think we need to let upstream handle this. We'll get new icons once they're provided upstream. Resolving LATER.
mass reopening all 10.2 LATER+REMIND bugs.
close all 10.2 LATER/REMIND bugs as WONTFIX. Reopen yourself if you still plan to work on it.