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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 07.03.2014 18:16, schrieb Ryan Lerch:
> IMHO, the proposal was less of
> 
> "let's remove ugly icons"
> 
> and more
> 
> "lets hide applications that use icons in this particular format that doesn't support the features of the software
> application"

IMHO you did not read the proposal itself
scroll down - i pasted it again in this message

> It is still possible to have ugly icons, they just have to be in PNG, GIF or SVG format

and that is why "and look very bad" defined by the format is flawed

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Betreff: Proposal: Don't show applications in the software center with XPM icons
Datum: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:41:00 +0000
Von: Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
An: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>

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:

TeXmacs
cycle
flamerobin
gnurobots
linsmith
mup
pari-gp
pgadmin3
qtel
qucs
xsensors

As usual, I'd like to push packagers to get upstream to ship a more
modern (and high resolution, *with* alpha channel) icon in PNG or SVG
format, but packagers can also just replace the icon referenced in the
.desktop file if upstream is unwilling / dead and a good replacement
is available.

Comments welcome,

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