Unity

Unity dash doesn't downsize too large application icons

Bug #1074090 reported by Simon Strandman on 2012-11-01

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Eclipse ships with an icon that has the size 256x256. Unity dash tries to display the icon at that size rather than downsizing it to match the other icons and this looks really odd. It's displayed properly in the launcher though.

See the attatched screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Thu Nov 1 18:45:34 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-10 (22 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121010)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Simon Strandman (nejsimon) wrote on 2012-11-01:

Screenshot.png Edit (553.1 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (24.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (39.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) on 2012-11-02

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Simon Strandman (nejsimon) wrote on 2013-05-12:

Still an issue in 13.04.

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2014-07-23

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Alex Baggott (alex-baggott) wrote on 2015-10-12:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu, but cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.