icons are not resized in dash

[David Turner]

In the dash, if an application icon is to large or too small, it is not resized to the standard size that all other icons are. A good example of this is the game "The Clockwork Man" and "Stellarium". Here is a screenshot showing both icons. Notice how both icons are not the correct size.

Now, I'm pretty sure that the case of "The Clockwork Man" is definitly a bug, but when the icon is too small, I can understand that it might not be best to resize it, since it will become blocky/pixelated.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

@Nicholas we can use 'fix committed' when the fix actually gets accepted and merged into trunk.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

David, is there any other app I could use to reproduce the problem? It seems the game that you reproduced the bug with is a paid one.

[David Turner (dwt)]

http://imageshack.us/a/img39/4603/theclockworkman.png

I bet if you set that as the menu icon for any program, it will have the same result. If it makes any difference, the location of that file is in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/theclockworkman.png

An example of a program which has a smaller icon though is 'stellarium', which is a free in the USC.

[Keith Lee (keith19933)]

Is this related to a bug in Nautilus? Using the version of Trine from an old Humble Bundle (the installer is simply a self extractor which adds the relevant *.desktop file to the dash) I note the icon - which is a hefty 512x512 - is not only oversized in the dash, but the source .desktop file is far far larger then it's fellow icons in Nautilus too (and if you copy it to your desktop it cannot be resized). Another thing; the .xpm file which the .desktop file uses as it's icon displays in the dash just fine as a file: http://i.imgur.com/fNhdW.jpg

[thgreasi (thgreasi)]

I can confirm this in 12.10 (Quantal). Plz add to affected distributions.

[Matt C (proteus400)]

After an upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, my custom icons on the desktop (Eclipse and SpringSource Tool Suite variants) (stock icon.xpm) are huge. Screenshot follows.

[Matt C (proteus400)]

I should add that right-click -> 'Resize Icon' doesn't work - handles won't allow any resizing. 'Restore Original Icon Size' doesn't work either.

[Rick Ucker (rick-ucker)]

Confirming that the issue is reproducible with icon.xpm, which ships with Eclipse Juno. http://i.imgur.com/kQjfD.png