Supply full set of application icons

steamclosed Feature RequestreviewedSteam client

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#355 · opened 2012-12-24 by monreal · updated 2019-07-18 · 8 comments · github

Mmonreal 2012-12-24 github

In order to look good (not blurry) in all possible places (panel, launchers, window switchers...) on various Linux desktop environments, Steam should supply a full set of application icons. This consists of:

16x16 px icon
22x22 px icon
24x24 px icon (= 22x22 plus 1 px border)
32x32 px icon
48x48 px icon
256x256 px high resolution image

The deb/rpm package should put these icons in /usr/share/hicolor/$size/apps/steam.png

Ideally, the icons should follow the Tango Style [1]

[1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines

Aahstro 2012-12-25 github

The deb package does put icons in those locations. If you extract the .deb file (using "ar x steam_latest.deb" and look under ./usr/share/icons/hicolor you'll find all icons that come with the package, which includes the ones you mentioned, excluding 22x22.

Mmonreal 2012-12-25 github

Okay, I was not using this package and I only got one icon size. However, even with the latest official package, there are various problems:

missing 22x22 (used to be important for KDE desktops)
24x24 fills the whole canvas, this will look bad side to side with other 24x24 icons
24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 seem to be based on the same source image, the resulting icons are blurry

?ghost 2012-12-26 github

I agree with @monreal. Steam icon is blurry on some parts of Unity desktop too. For example, the icon, which shows on Alt+Tab menu.

Aahstro 2012-12-26 github

Ah, I understand. I'm using AwesomeWM so I'm barely seeing any icons, but now that you mention it, the ones I see look a bit blurry. This should obviously be fixed by Valve in the end, but if it's really important to you, I guess some GIMP magic wouldn't be that hard.

Ddflock 2012-12-29 github

There's also no scalable icon - there should probably be a /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/steam.svg file, which should be a scalable svg icon.

Ggearytest 2013-01-18 github

Agree, a scalable icon would be nice

Ddreamer 2019-04-26 github

I am looking through various Steam icon related issues and this one seems to be fixed? Steam provides the following icons:

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/steam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/steam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/steam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/steam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/steam.png

Icons 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 are proper ones, not a upscaled versions. Size 22x22 is not used anymore in Linux desktops (aside of MATE, I think). Scalable icon, while nice, does not provide any significant improvement over 256x256 at this point in time (as it didn't in 2013).

Perhaps this issue should be closed?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-05-31 github

Closing per the last comment.

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