Pidgin buddy icons appear blurred in notification bubbles
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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notify-osd (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Mirco Müller | ||
pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Mirco Müller |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin-libnotify
According to comments and a screenshot in bug 338695, custom buddy icons that pidgin-libnotify sends in notifications are blurry. (A similar problem with generic protocol icons has been fixed, bug 333497.)
From Åskar in bug 338695: "The issue with lowresicons in pidgins buddyicons (check here: http://
First, we should verify that Åskar's diagnosis is correct.
If it is correct, we should investigate ways in Notify OSD of making icons look less bad when they are smaller than the allocated size, without compromising the consistency of the Notify OSD bubble layout. One possibility would be to never scale up icons, but to center too-small icons inside a subtle grey square outline.
(The equivalent problem in Rhythmbox is bug 360228, and in Banshee is bug 338695.)
description: | updated |
Changed in pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow) |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow) |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Thanks for cleaning up the bugmess!
The icons seems to be 96x96 from looking in .purple/icons and they should be at least "128 pixels in either width or height, to minimize the appearance of artifacts when it is scaled" according to https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Notificatio nDevelopmentGui delines
The icon shown in the screenshot is 46x46 however.
I tried resizing a 96x96 icon from .purple/icons to 46x46 and got these results. Check the attached image.
The image to the left is from the bubble.
The image to the right is an image from .purple/icons resized to 46x46 in GIMP.
As you can see this looks a lot better, so I think we can say that the problem is not, as I said before, that we got no images big enough.