Proposal: Don't show applications in the software center with XPM icons

Petr Pisar ppisar at redhat.com
Fri Mar 7 11:42:02 UTC 2014


On 2014-03-06, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> XPM is an old standard for icons used by a very small number of
> desktop packages in Fedora. The XPM icons are normally small, mostly 8
> bit, and usually without an alpha channel and look very bad in the
> software center.
>
> I'm going to propose for F21 that we drop support for XPM in the
> metadata extractor and only show apps with GIF, PNG and SVG icons. The
> list of affected GUI applications is here:
>
GIF is an old standard for icons used by a very small number of
desktop packages in Fedora. The GIF icons are normally small, mostly 8
bit, and usually without an alpha channel and look very bad in the
software center.

-- Petr



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