Re: Update to new emblem sizes

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 13:17 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:30 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > Looking at the current gnome-icon-theme there are still 32x32 icons in
> > the 48x48/emblems folder. Like for instance emblem-danger.png.
> 
> Hi Alex,
> Sorry for the late reply. Indeed the 48x48 still has legacy icons we
> want to phase out gradually, just like */stock. But if we want to treat
> emblems like regular icons, shipping them with an icon theme, I stand by
> keeping the same size logic.
> 
> As for how to do the scaling of emblems in nautilus, take a peek at how
> Xfce's Thunar does it. I believe it it follows dobey's suggestion to use
> a quater of the icon area. I also don't think the emblems are readable
> at icon sizes of 24x24px and lower (Thunar does use them still). If you
> think we need them there, we need to provide the tiny resolutions of the
> emblems as scaling down to 8x8px doesn't work at all.

But the old legacy icons are there, so whatever we do about scaling
we'll do some of the emblems wrong.