Bug 227524 - App icons can't be GIFs
Summary: App icons can't be GIFs
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: eclipse
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Ben Konrath
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Reported: 2007-02-06 17:14 UTC by Owen Taylor
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 3.2.2-1.fc6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-02-21 21:52:33 UTC
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Description Owen Taylor 2007-02-06 17:14:50 UTC 
In the eclipse-platform package:

 /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/eclipse.png

Is a symlink to 

  ../../../../eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.2.1/eclipse32.gif

This *may* happen to work with the GNOME menus, but:

 A) It's not legitimate to give something a .png extension that is actually a gif
 B) The icon spec doesn't allow GIFs... icons must be PNG, XPM, or SVG
     (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/icon-theme-spec)
Comment 1 Ben Konrath 2007-02-06 17:41:28 UTC 
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm working on an update for fc6 this week and
I'll  include a fix for this. I'll also try to get them to use pngs upstream but
I suspect I won't get any traction.
Comment 2 Ben Konrath 2007-02-21 21:52:33 UTC 
This is fixed in the upcoming 3.2.2-1.fc6 update. Thanks.
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