Use high resolution Thunderbird icon for task switcher

[Nate Graham]

Right now, Thunderbird in Ubuntu is packaged with a set of low-res icons. Because of this, is you use KDE Plasma with the Large Icons alt-tab task switcher, the Thunderbird icons look ugly: https://i.imgur.com/LdL7wlM.png

openSUSE packagers patch in larger icons, and so in openSUSE, they look sharp and crisp: https://i.imgur.com/Le8ZhWg.png

I have opened a ticket with Mozilla, but it has been ignored: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371931

So until they fix it upstream, we may want to consider adopting the openSUSE patch in Ubuntu: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1057115

This way, KDE Plasma users will get nice Thunderbird icons in their Large Icons alt-tab task switchers.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Nate,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird icons. You made this bug report some time ago and I noticed that you marked the Mozilla bug as resolved,

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[Nate Graham (pointedstick)]

Confirmed. The next version of Thunderbird (59) has the icon fixed upstream. Now we just need to wait for it to be released...

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, Nate, and for changing the status.
Have a great day!
:)
G