Application Indicators are using fixed icon size

[jgv]

Application Indicators use a fixed icon size of 22 pixels. This works when people are using the default panel size, but when users resize their panel they get very small icons, in spite of the fact that many icon themes provide SVG icons, which should be scalable infinitely.

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
Some Icons in top panel are not scaling correctly.

The icons that can not scale at all are very bad visible (e.g. the sound icon is very skinny).

See attached screenshots.

Notice:

This is not a duplicate of bug 359384!

Until Ubuntu 9.10 all standard panel icons did scale in any way.

See attached screenshots with 50 pixels panel height.
Sound icon e.g. scales up to 8 mm height in Ubuntu 9.10.

[Vish (vish)]

Do you still have the problem after the latest updates?

Initially this problem existed , it seems fixed now.

[jgv (visserjg)]

See attached screenshot.

-----Oorspronkelijke bericht-----
Van: Vish <email address hidden>
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Onderwerp: [Bug 533439] Re: Some Icons in top panel are not scaling
Datum: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:05:42 -0000

Do you still have the problem after the latest updates?

Initially this problem existed , it seems fixed now.

** Changed in: light-themes (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

[Vish (vish)]

That is not a theme bug , it is the setting in the indicator-application to use only 22px icons.
The icons that scale are the applet-icons which dont use the indicator-application

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I can confirm this issue myself.

Forwarding this upstream.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

There is now a property that themes can set to enable this. Unfortunately many of the panel icon themes are limited in size, but if they set the x-ayatana-indicator-dynamic style property on GtkImage then the panel icons will be the same size as the text. I'm not sure any theme will set this for Lucid though, it'll probably be a "technology preview." But, it is fixed in indicator-application.

[Otus (jan-varho)]

The current versions of the Ambiance and Radiance themes do set the x-ayatana-indicator-dynamic property, yet the indicator icons are still smaller than other notification icons (with indicator-application-0.0.19-0ubuntu1). Is the Fix Released status wrong or is there another component that also needs to be updated to make this work?

[StewPedassle (anthonie-moll+bugs)]

I am trying to go the opposite way and get the panel as tiny as possible. I have the panel set to 14 pixels and most things resize. The two applets that I use that give me problems are the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 2.30.0 (top right of shot) and the Indicator Applet 0.3.6 (top middle). I had this problem with the betas and just did a fresh install to no avail. Any icon (such as amarok) that shows up in the Indicator Applet refuses to resize.

[Otus (jan-varho)]

This does not work in the final release of Lucid, even though light-themes do set the x-ayatana-indicator-dynamic property and a newer version of indicator-application is used. Please confirm that the fix is indeed released.

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

On a large panel, with a large-font system, the indicator-applet-session "logout" button is very small.... almost invisible next to the username, tucked in next the next applet.

[Otus (jan-varho)]

Ok, so the situation hasn't changed changed with indicator-application 0.2.9-0ubuntu1 in Maverick. The themes contain the x-ayatana-indicator-dynamic property for images, but they don't scale.

[lokster (lokiisyourmaster)]

It seems this is not a bug, it's a "feature" introduced in version 0.0.15.
Because Unity uses fixed icons, the developers doesn't care about people using different desktop environments.

[Svetoslav Stefanov (svetlisashkov)]

I can not understand how this can be a feature. That type of limitation is useless...