Comment 0 for bug 364038

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://pici.se/396034/ ) is unfixable. That image is the only image we get from MSN and there is no way to make it bigger without upscaling it (and making it look bad). The only way this can be fixed is to use a smaller picture inside the bubbles."

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.