Several system app dash icons are too low res in Applications scope

[Jouni Helminen]

current situation:

Several system app icons are too low res (blurry/pixelated) in Applications scope. The same icons appear fine in Home scope however

affected icons:

-gallery
-messaging
-facebook
-twitter
-contacts
-dialer
-browser
-gmail
-ubuntu one
-amazon

Solution:

Mathieu has uploaded high res system app icons to ubuntu-themes - please use those instead

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

When you compare Applications/Installed and Home/Applications icons, you can see that the ones in Applications scope are blurred/low resolution, while the ones in Home are crisp. Other icons in Applications are high quality as well, only those theme-based are wrong.

It suggests that it's the image://theme/ provider is doing something wrong - we need to investigate which images are selected from the theme, since we're shipping 4 icons in total:

$ dpkg -S webbrowser-app.{svg,png}
ubuntu-mobile-icons: /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mobile/apps/scalable/webbrowser-app.svg
webbrowser-app: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/webbrowser-app.svg
ubuntu-mobile-icons: /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mobile/apps/240/webbrowser-app.png
ubuntu-mobile-icons: /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mobile/apps/144/webbrowser-app.png

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Marking the unity8 task as incomplete, as I'm pretty sure we can't / shouldn't do anything in that area.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Marking as duplicate of bug #1240134, which has more info (and a fix).

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Bug #1271158 I meant.