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6 There should be icons in several sizes - ID: 2109095
Last Update: Comment added ( pabs3 )

Currently there's only one program icon (in images/), synfig_icon.png which
is 128x128, much too big for most desktop environment's uses. It may be
scaled down of course, but that would lose all of synfig's abilities as a
vector drawing application.

I propose to create icons of several sizes at compile time and install them
whereever they are expected. I think that 24, 32, 48, 64 and 128px should
fit most needs, but maybe asking the KDE and Gnome people would be a good
idea as well. As for the places to install them I can only guess and maybe
quote from freedesktop.org:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.htm
l says:

"Icons and themes are looked for in a set of directories. By default, apps
should look in $HOME/.icons (for backwards compatibility), in
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons and in /usr/share/pixmaps (in that order).
...
In order to have a place for third party applications to install their
icons there should always exist a theme called "hicolor".
..."

On my (Gentoo linux) system, the appropriate location seems to be:

$ ls /usr/share/icons/hicolor/
128x128 16x16 192x192 22x22 24x24 32x32 36x36 48x48 64x64 72x72
96x96 icon-theme.cache index.theme scalable

Oh, and those are probably also the common sizes.

I'll also upload a first try of an svg version of the logo. It's really
hard to reproduce the light effects, svg (even in Inkscape) is not really
rich in layer modes. Do with it whatever you want, under whichever license
you want.


Daniel Hornung ( rubikcube ) - 2008-09-13 16:11

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Comments ( 6 )

Date: 2009-04-27 06:27
Sender: pabs3

This is fixed in SVN r2079.


Date: 2008-11-09 10:54
Sender: geneteProject AdminAccepting Donations

Is this request already submitted?
If so, can it be closed?
If not, why don't we apply the patch?


Date: 2008-09-25 14:34
Sender: pabs3

Fixed patch to actually work with automake.
File Added: 0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch


Date: 2008-09-24 16:36
Sender: pabs3

Updated patch disabling the stuff under Windows and MacOS X.
File Added: 0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch


Date: 2008-09-24 16:24
Sender: pabs3

One needed change to the patch is to disable it on Windows since we have
synfig_icon.ico, which contains multiple sizes for the icon.


Date: 2008-09-24 16:00
Sender: pabs3

I propose the attached patch to implement this request.
File Added: 0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch


Attached Files ( 4 )

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0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch Download
0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch Download
0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch Download
synfig_icon.svg Synfig logo as svg, a first try. Download

Changes ( 10 )

Field Old Value Date By
close_date - 2009-04-27 06:27 pabs3
status_id Open 2009-04-27 06:27 pabs3
resolution_id None 2009-04-27 06:27 pabs3
assigned_to nobody 2009-04-27 06:27 pabs3
allow_comments 1 2009-04-27 06:27 pabs3
File Added 294868: 0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch 2008-09-25 14:34 pabs3
File Added 294751: 0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch 2008-09-24 16:36 pabs3
File Added 294747: 0001-Implement-2109095-Add-multiple-sizes-and-a-scalable.patch 2008-09-24 16:00 pabs3
priority 5 2008-09-13 16:11 rubikcube
File Added 293250: synfig_icon.svg 2008-09-13 16:11 rubikcube