On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 08:57 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
That might be a good reason, but it's not the one given at the start of this proposal, that was that larger icons are needed for the software centre (i.e. for applications to get included in the installer) due to higher resolution displays.
I think the software center and shell display icons at the same size, so it matters equally to both.