In gnome-exe-thumbnailer the wine icon is too big and the exe icon is too small

[Burt P.]

Binary package hint: gnome-exe-thumbnailer

The Wine icon is the same on every .exe, and the extracted Windows icon is actually unique and relative to each file, so why is the wine icon so big and the windows icon so very small?

[Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil)]

As it seems, nearly every windows executable contains at least a 32x32 icon. 48x48 px, default icon size used by Nautilus is pretty rare in older applications, thus we can't rely on it and just use the native icon. Stretching it, as Windows does with e.g. ctfmon.exe, is not an option for us - we want our OS to be pretty. Even if we had the 48x48 icon for every app, the result would be rather unpleasant, because most Windows icons obviously doesn't follows our style guidelines. What's more, it would be good to show somehow that the .exe file will be opened in some specialized application rather than ran directly.

So this situation directly urges one to put the extracted 32x32 icon over slightly tilted 48x48 wine glass icon with some transparency on the right place for better contrast, as you can see on attached image. Where 32x32 icon is missing, we go for smaller one (msrating.dll), or, if no icon at all can be found or extracted, we simply use a generic thumbnail (subinacl.exe).

[shankao (shankao)]

Confirmed in natty

[Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil)]

That's not a bug, it's by desing. Maybe I could reconsider this and add _optional_ reversed behavior, but what to do in (most) cases when icon extracted from exe is smaller than 48x48 px? Any suggestions?

[Burt P. (pburt0)]

I don't think it is true that _most_ icons cases are missing a 48x48 icon. In your showcase, 8/11 with icons have 48px icons. I think it is actually the reverse, that most apps released after Windows XP (ten years ago) do have 48x48 icons. Anyway, the point of an icon is to identify the program very quickly, so that you can look through the files in a folder and find the executable you want to run. Also, I like having the version number there, but showing on top of the icon makes it even harder to use the icon for its purpose. I think the actual icon should be the largest, stretched if necessary, and the wine icon small and at the top right, and the version number where it is. At least an option for that, please. In the few folders of windows apps, I don't care if it is ugly, as long as it is easier to use.

[Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil)]

Please feel free to help with the testing of the new "follow-the-icon-theme" feature:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/+bug/632790/comments/1

The icon size does not changed, however the new "Faenza style" thumbnails may be perceived as more clean and readable.

[Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil)]

Marking as "Fix Released", because thumbnailer's behaviour changed few releases ago; that big obnoxious Wine icon is not used anymore.