Guidelines draft: Apps and launchers

Kalev Lember kalevlember at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 18:50:07 UTC 2014


On 08/20/2014 08:44 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 20 August 2014 18:45, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 64x64 is too small for high dpi screens (its the same as 32x32 for non
>> hidpi screen) if "64x64" is your aim ask for 128x128.
> 
> That would push the icon tarball from 6Mb to over 25Mb. I'm happy
> doing both sizes for hidpi, but I think an easier fix is just to scale
> the icons double size in the hidpi case in the client.

Perhaps hidpi icons might be something gnome-software could download on
demand, similar to screenshots. First show scaled-up icons and then, on
the background, download better images and replace the low-res images
once the download is completed?

-- 
Kalev


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