Gnome shell huge app's icon size in the app folder

[keshavbhatt]

Description: Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch)
Release: 20.04

Bug: Gnome shell while opening app folder created in app launcher, the resulting dialog holding apps of app folder are having icon size larger than the other apps shown in the app launcher.

How to reproduce: 1- Click on 9 dots qt bottom corner of dash (the app launcher button), wait for the app grid to show up.
2- Drag app icon to create apps folder.
3- As the app folder gets created, click to open it and observe the size of app icons shown by the folder.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.1-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 12 12:48:05 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-11 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200329)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.1-3ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

This seems somewhat dependent on the screen resolution.

At 1920x1080 (the most popular screen resolution) our default web browser is "Firefox Web br..."
At 1366x768 (the next most popular screen resolution) it's "Firefox W..."

It looks like the GNOME stock application names have been optimised for this behaviour, being called short names like "Calendar", "Calculator", "Terminal", "Settings", "Fonts" which fit beneath their icons.

Perhaps our stock .desktop files should be examined, and developers encouraged to use shorter names. In 2020, does anyone on Linux really not know that Firefox is a Web browser for example?

[keshavbhatt (keshavnrj)]

This bug is not related to the title issue, thats a seperate bug.

This is about the size of app icons in the apps thats are grouped together using app folder. Their size is far bigger than the other apps which are not grouped. This is UI/UX bug nothing serious. If one want to focus on UI/UX this must probably be fixed.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The issue described in comment #2 is bug 968213.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This bug sounds like bug 1869737 so let's use that.

[keshavbhatt (keshavnrj)]

this bug is different, am talking about the size of icons inside the app folder and not the event that occur after closing the app folder.

The icons inside app folder are huge and do not matches the rest of the fnome shell.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

In that case please attach a screenshot of the bug.

[keshavbhatt (keshavnrj)]

Check the size of icons in opened apps folder/group view that is huge in comparison to app launcher grid icon size.

[keshavbhatt (keshavnrj)]

While size of icons in the launcher app grid looks like this.

[Adonias Alcântara de Souza Neto (adoniasasneto)]

Same happens to me. When I click on the folder inside the launcher the icons get huge.

[Adonias Alcântara de Souza Neto (adoniasasneto)]

I just noticed that this problem only occurs on my laptop screen (1366x768), but when plugging in a larger external screen the bug does not happen. I guess this bug is related to screen resolution.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Tracking upstream in: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2738

but there's also: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2824