[Bug 44264] Re: Some icons in gnome-system-monitor appear too large

[Pascal De Vuyst]

@Daniel

The gaim icon in g-s-m seems to be fixed in Ubuntu Dapper LTS 6.06.
This is because tango-icon-theme-common provides a 16x16 icon for gaim now.

tango-icon-theme-common was released on 2006-05-11.
A dependency for it was added to ubuntu-desktop on 2006-05-14.

ubuntu-meta (0.114) dapper; urgency=low

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added tango-icon-theme-common to desktop-i386, desktop-amd64,
    desktop-powerpc, desktop-ia64, desktop-sparc, desktop-hppa

 -- Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com>  Sun, 14 May 2006
18:59:09 +0200

At the time I wrote my comment (2006-05-26) I did not have ubuntu-desktop installed because I removed some packages. This means I didn't have tango-icon-theme-common installed and explains why I saw larger gaim icon in g-s-m, because the icon then falls back to /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/apps/gaim.png.
Since then I have reinstalled the ubuntu-desktop meta package.

But the problem for xchat icon in g-s-m remains since no xchat icon is
provided in tango-icon-theme-common, the icon falls back to
/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/gaim.png. Note that this icon is twice
as big as expected.

Neither gaim or xchat are GNOME applications and should fall back to
icons under /usr/share/icons/hicolor instead, their icons don't belong
in gnome-icon-theme. And there are a lot of other applications that
don't belong in gnome-icon-theme as well.

While it is a good thing ubuntu provides it's own icons for common applications, it is impossible to do this for every existing application.
Therefore each upstream application should provide it's basic icon(s) in /usr/share/icons/hicolor.
An upstream application should ideally only provide an 48x48 png icon if change 4) I described in my previous comment was made to the hicolor-icon-theme. This would allow downscaling to 16x16 icons needed by g-s-m.

That is why it's a bug in gnome-icon-theme, hicolor-icon-theme, gaim, xchat and a lot of other upstream applications.
At the time of writing I did not know better than to assign the bug to all these components, sorry for that.
And this point in time I believe it would be better to create a specification out of this since it affects lots of packages which makes it difficult to handle in bug reports.

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Some icons in gnome-system-monitor appear too large
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44264