Regression -- Some applications icons in Unity Dash are displayed too large

[Rainer Rohde]

I am on unity-lens-applications 6.10.0-0ubuntu1, with Quantal Proposed enabled in Software Sources. I see large application icons for some applications. This is a regression, as this wasn't the case until recently.

This issue might coincide with bug #1052513.

In my case, these icons are enlarged within the application lens:

Unison
Weather Indicator
Guake
Xmind
XDiagnose
XML Copy Editor

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-lens-applications 6.10.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 13 18:09:00 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-lens-applications
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

See screenshot attached.

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

I just stepped up to 13.04 and this issue still persists.

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

Here's a current screenshot that shows some of the larger application icons....

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

Also note that as of today there seem to be much smaller icons without label among them. No idea as to where they are coming from....

[Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)]

I don't see tiny icons (as on the 2nd screenshot) in 13.10 anymore, but there are still some icons that are big and stand out (Unison, Eclipse, Emacs...). We need to examine them case by case, I suspect the icons themselves are the culprit.

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

Just an updated screenshot from 13.10, exerting the same behavior. Please see screenshot attached.

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

I am wondering why Unity doesn't have the ability to scale icons into the required size, rather than relying on the icon size provided by those who design them.

Somewhat unrelated, I was also wondering to what happened to the old idea that low quality icons should be replaced by the system automatically by some sort of generic application icon?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in the current version?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]