Chromium icon in Unity is distorted / some scaled distored in the unity place applications

[Vallery Lancey]

The Chromium launcher in the Unity menu looks somewhat pixelated and distorted. I'm guessing it's a poorly scaled .png (Chromium's fault) or Unity is rendering a .svg wrong.

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

Thanks for reporting the bug. Which version of Chromium are you using?

[Vallery Lancey (muscovy)]

I'm running version 7.0.517.41~r62167-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 (latest).

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

The icon isn't great once scaled, indeed.

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

Chromium provides both pngs and a svg:

$ dpkg -L chromium-browser | grep icon | xargs file
/usr/share/icons: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/chromium-browser.png: PNG image, 32 x 32, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/chromium-browser.png: PNG image, 256 x 256, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/chromium-browser.png: PNG image, 48 x 48, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/chromium-browser.png: PNG image, 16 x 16, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps: directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/chromium-browser.svg: SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image

not sure what else i can do in the chromium package.

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

They all look sane to me.

See the GraphicsMagick montage attached

obtained with the following command:
gm montage -label "%d\n%f\n%wx%h" -geometry +4+4 `dpkg -L chromium-browser | grep icon | grep '\.png$'` /tmp/o.png

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

closing for chromium. please re-open if you think the files are incorrect.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

I am experiencing a similar problem on my laptop when using Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition. I don't have Chromium installed, but I do have Google Chrome, and its icon appears to display just fine. However, I get the problem with the icons for Emacs and Hedgewars, as shown in the attached screenshot. I think the Gwibber icon is affected as well, but it's not as noticeable. I don't think this problem is only specific to Chromium.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 3.6.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (3.6.0-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Menu bar becomes blank periodically (LP: #683065)
    - Unity does not update when screen resolution changes (LP: #684539)
    - [dash] Keyboard navigation not implemented as specified (LP: #608132)
    - Dash - build the Desktop Dash (LP: #683719)
    - Quicklists not working (LP: #719780)
    - Launcher auto hide animation has a life of it's own / Unity launcher
      constantly sliding in and out without user interaction (LP: #717364)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::getModalTransient()
      (LP: #726235)
    - Don't show launcher number overlays on tap of super (LP: #726630)
    - Optimize texture memory usage for unexposed view icons (LP: #609994)
    - Unity should handle video-out keycodes that correspond to Super + P +
      Enter (LP: #632632)
    - dash - wrong count of remaining items to see (LP: #662605)
    - dash - x search box button visibility (LP: #662614)
    - Touch window management gesture previews (LP: #683688)
    - unity not working on rotated displays (LP: #694596)
    - unity main top bar in displays in wrong area (multi-head issue)
      (LP: #707209)
    - unity place group visual improvements (LP: #714528)
    - Implement ref_state_set for toplevel ATK objects in the panel service
      (LP: #715299)
    - Alt + F1 doesn't show the launcher if hidden (LP: #717125)
    - Keyboard navigation: Choosing a window from launcher doesn't change
      input focus. (LP: #721811)
    - Quicklists not closing when losing focus (LP: #724739)
    - wrong animation in the launcher (LP: #724956)
    - Window management - windows go below launcher and panel (LP: #725463)
    - Media and PrintScreen keys don't work (LP: #621887)
    - super-shortcuts should be "serializable" (LP: #638936)
    - Chromium icon in Unity is distorted / some scaled distored in the unity
      place applications (LP: #670169)
    - launcher stays on screen when it shouldn't | false show/hide positives
      on the launcher (LP: #711176)
    - Keyboard navigation: no public API to know the current Laucher Icon
      selected when key nav is activated (LP: #722660)
    - Require to implement AtkSelection on the Launcher (LP: #723804)
    - LauncherIcon accessibility support requires to expose the selection
      state (LP: #723806)
    - Add keyboard shortcuts for launching separate instances of applications
      (LP: #724865)
  * debian/control:
    - dep on latest nux
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:27:16 +0100

[costales (costales)]

Hi! I have problems with my icon app (gufw) in the left panel of Unity. I changed the icon in the main glade file, this changed the icon in Unity left panel, but the icon is very 'blur'. See this capture, I overwrited the icon with the gnome-terminal, the second is really gufw, and the first the original gnome-terminal app: http://ubuntuone.com/p/hqi/
I only have the icon in 48x48.
Which icon is getting Unity?
Any help, please? Thanks in advance! :)