fuzzy icon for AWN / Compiz

[Luke Jennings]

I found wxbanker thanks to omg ubuntu and I love it. I did notice that the icon in awn is fuzzy, please see the screenshot attached. A program I work on had a similar problem, which was caused by the wrong icon being assigned to the window/open application. It may not be the case here as I have not checked the code. I did look at the the icons which are installed by the package and I could not see a problem with those. I am using the stable ppa wxbanker 0.8 and ubuntu lucid (10.04).

[Luke Jennings (ubuntujenkins)]

Also there is no icon for the about window

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Thanks for the report, I can confirm this! It is weird that Gnome-Do and Docky show the hi-res icon, and if I browse to /usr/share/applications with nautilus, it also shows a nice icon. I know a bunch of the AWN dudes though and can hopefully find out if there is something better that I can do, if it isn't an AWN bug.

I'll also see about the About dialog. In Docky it gets grouped with the original icon and so behaves as expected.

I also noticed if I use the alt+tab option of compiz, it seems to be pulling the low-res icon as well, so maybe that is related.

[Luke Jennings (ubuntujenkins)]

It does sound rather weird in awn they do also get grouped but the active window one shows up on top.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Okay, I see one way to fix this. In main.py:140 I call SetIcon to a 16x16 image, which AWN and Compiz use. If I remove this call, AWN shows the generic window icon. I can change this to detect if a larger image is available on the system (such as /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/wxbanker.png) then they will have a higher quality one available since they don't seem to detect the system icon. Oddly if I make it higher such as 256, AWN happily uses it and it looks great big, but Compiz shows no icon then.

So I think the solution is to:
 * set the icon to the 48 if it exists and
 *maybe also subclass a BankerFrame or something which uses this icon by default, so other dialogs get it (csv import, account config, about)

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

The main frame and CSV Import frame should now have a 48px icon available to them; should be much prettier now, thanks for reporting this!

Alas it doesn't appear that I can fix the About dialog in a trivial fashion, but I've asked on the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/wxpython-users/browse_thread/thread/77ac00b30eb676fb so we shall see.