Bug 1157565 - Application icon is too small to be used in the software center
Summary: Application icon is too small to be used in the software center
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pyobd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-27 11:02 UTC by Richard Hughes
Modified: 2016-07-10 05:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc23 pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc24
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-07-09 23:53:43 UTC
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Description Richard Hughes 2014-10-27 11:02:48 UTC
Description of problem:

In Fedora 21 we show any valid application in the software center with an application icon of 32x32 or larger. Currently a 32x32 icon has to be padded with 16 pixels of whitespace on all 4 edges, and *also* has to be scaled x2 to match other UI elements on HiDPI screens.

This looks fuzzy, out of alignment and lowers the quality of an otherwise beautiful installing experience. For Fedora 22 we are planning to increase the minimum icon size to 48x48, with recommended installed sizes of 24x24, 48x48, 64x64 and 256x256 (or SVG).

Modern desktop applications typically ship multiple sizes of icons in known locations, and it's very much the minority of packages in Fedora (69 out of 1042) that only ship such small icons.

I'm asking package maintainers to install a larger icon than 32x32 in the Fedora package. Most of the time this will involve just installing a different icon from the tarball, but could also mean contacting upstream and asking them for larger icons and a new tarball release.

If you're asking upstream, please ask for a 256x256 or 64x64 icon, as the latter will probably be the minimum size for F23 and beyond. If you want to fix up F20 and F21 too that would be great, but not expected.

At the end of November I'll change the minimum icon size in the AppStream generator so that applications not fixed will not be shown in the software center. You can of course install this application in F22 with dnf on the command line, but it won't be visible in the software center until they are installed manually.

Additional info:
If you're unclear on what needs to be done in order to be listed in the software center, refer to this https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib#what-is-an-application or comment here.

Thanks!

Richard.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2014-11-11 16:12:43 UTC
Contacted upstream, Secons Ltd. (www.obdtester.com).

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2014-11-11 16:26:09 UTC
Reply from upstream:
> we do not have any better icon, but please feel free to provide any
> patches that we will include in the package (including any Fedora/RHEL
> stuff).
>
> Either provide full modified package or a diff file.

Richard, is it planned to resolve such issues by e.g. Fedora Design Team? Especially making this icon shouldn't be hard.

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2014-11-12 17:13:52 UTC
(In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #2)
> Richard, is it planned to resolve such issues by e.g. Fedora Design Team?
> Especially making this icon shouldn't be hard.

I don't know of any resources there, but it wouldn't hurt to ask if upstream is unable/unwilling.

Comment 4 Jaroslav Škarvada 2014-11-21 10:56:32 UTC
(In reply to Richard Hughes from comment #3)
> (In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #2)
> > Richard, is it planned to resolve such issues by e.g. Fedora Design Team?
> > Especially making this icon shouldn't be hard.
> 
> I don't know of any resources there, but it wouldn't hurt to ask if upstream
> is unable/unwilling.

From the communication I am afraid both. And it is probably not prio for them and I fully understand it, as it is engineering/servicing tool and the icon is really not important here. Also the original icon is very simple and generic. It was probably taken from some free internet repo.

So is there any volunteer to help the project? I am really not good at drawing and it doesn't seem upstream is much better at it :)

Comment 5 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 17:04:50 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 6 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2016-06-28 08:55:23 UTC
I can see a scalable icon in SVG format in current F23 version (0.9.3-1) so I guess this can be closed.

Comment 7 Jaroslav Škarvada 2016-06-28 09:03:01 UTC
Yup, our design team made it and I also provided it upstream. But IIRC it's currently only available in rawhide. This bug has been initially filled against rawhide, so closing against rawhide.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-06-28 09:50:16 UTC
pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d37c05ce55

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-06-28 09:53:47 UTC
pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-c3a29222dd

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-06-29 18:26:59 UTC
pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-c3a29222dd

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2016-06-29 22:56:37 UTC
pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d37c05ce55

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2016-07-09 23:53:38 UTC
pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2016-07-10 05:58:28 UTC
pyobd-0.9.3-3.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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