window icons don't get the right size (and so they are blurred)

[Andrea Cimitan]

Just installed karmic (so slow, if you have a netbook install intel 2.7.1 with EXA and greedy migration // END OT), but the window picker applet shows blurred icons for 24px panel and similar, it grabs the right icon size only at 32 and more.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Hey Cimi, can you attach a screenshot of the issue please?

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

This is due to the fact that icons need be scaled to fit the 24x24 panel. There are (generally) two icon sizes available, 32x32 and 16x16, so we scale the 32x32 down to 24x24 in an attempt to make it as good looking as possible. If you can make a list of some of the worst offending applications I can see about sending patches upstream to improve their window icons (by setting _NET_WM_ICON_NAME).

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

I am confirming this, but setting the importance to low as there is no realistic fix available right now, and certainly nothing that can be done for Karmic.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Removed milestone

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Every application looks ugly (works only gnome-terminal).
Could you provide a deb with the older window-picker-applet version? The one in jaunty...
Thanks

[Philipp Merkel (plippo)]

Could you please at least add an option to use the 16x16 icons (unscaled) as it was before? I had to install the jaunty version from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+package/window-picker-applet to have non-ugly icons. It works, but it lacks the new features like desaturation and double click on title.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Uhm, yeah I could add that option, but I dont really make those kinds of decisions. Can you tell me what icons exactly are problematic for you and even provide a screenshot of it?

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

2009/10/5 Jason Smith <email address hidden>:
> Uhm, yeah I could add that option, but I dont really make those kinds of
> decisions. Can you tell me what icons exactly are problematic for you
> and even provide a screenshot of it?

Every icon is blurred here...

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[Philipp Merkel (plippo)]

I've added a collage of screenshots of the applet. The first row shows the old version, the other rows show the current version with different applications highlighted. My panel size is 24 px.

The terminal icon looks great, the others are ugly. Only the Firefox one is almost acceptable.

If you don't want to make the decision to add an option, maybe you could add a secret little gconf key nobody will notice :-)

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

I am for the most secret option

[Redfred Garett (redfred-garett)]

A gnome-panel applet that displays open windows as icons on the panel, and has integrated window title-bar functionality. Optimised for use on netbook-size screens [[https://launchpad.net/window-picker-applet .]]