Re: Ugly application icons

[Grigory Javadyan <grigory javadyan gmail com>]

Do you think a patch for that would be useful? I could try to alter
the code so that the icon with highest available resolution is used,
without stretching.

2011/2/20 Karol Będkowski <karol bedkowski gmail com>:
> Hello,
>
> 2011-02-19 17:47:19 Grigory Javadyan <grigory javadyan gmail com>:
>>I'm pretty sure everyone has had this problem. Not all applications
>>provide hi-res versions of their icons. For example, FCE Ultra and
>>Skype do not have a big enough icon, so when running them from Kupfer
>>I see an ugly stretched version of the icon. I believe it would look
>>more aesthetically pleasing if the original size of a small icon was
>>retained instead of stretching it. If there is a way to fix this
>>without tinkering with the code, please let me know.
>
> Without coding I see only one solution:
> You can create custom pixmap with this same name as original icon (ie
> 64x64 pixels png file) and put it into ~/.local/icons/.
> Kupfer should use it at once.
>
> Regards,
> Karol
>