Unity

Dash: App and File search category headers show square icon with lense rather than star and scissors

Bug #758753 reported by Paul Sladen on 2011-04-12

This bug affects 3 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Ayatana Design	Fix Released	Medium	John Lea
Unity	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned	Unity backlog
unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

In the Dash, two of the search category header icons are showing square+lens icons rather than standalone+glow icons. To reproduce:

1. Press <Super> to open the Dash
2. type 'b' to produce some search results

What happens:

a. A plus in a lens in a square is shown before the word "Applications"
b. A document in a lens in a square is shown before the words "Files & Folders"

What should happen:

a. A glowing pair of scissors should be shown before the word "Applications"
b. A glowing white star should be shown before the words "Files & Folders"

Tags:

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote on 2011-04-12:

dash-search-category-icons-not-lens.png Edit (99.5 KiB, image/png)

Desired icons (left) and current icons (right).

Ideally the icons on the left should be used.

Changed in ayatana-design:
assignee:	nobody → John Lea (johnlea)

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote on 2011-04-12:

John: is this an accurate summary of the request?

Alex Launi (alexlauni) on 2011-04-12

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote on 2011-04-12:

Yes, this summary is accurate, thanks!

tags:	added: udt
Changed in ayatana-design:
status:	New → Fix Released
importance:	Undecided → High

Paul Sladen (sladen) on 2011-04-12

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-11.04

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote on 2011-04-13:

Some further clarification over this; for these group-* icons the paths are hardcoded to read from a specific location. It is not the change from .svg files to .pngs but the change in pathname. The pathname and the icon location require simultaneously changing. To avoid a half-and-half situation this requires adding "Breaks:" to the meta-data in the .deb to ensure a smooth upgrade.

The solution at this stage therefore has to rely of not changing the pathnames. One possible solution is to embed the .pngs into .svg files (this uses a url:// and base64 encoding). The files will be approximately 25% larger from the base64 encoding. I'll look in to confirming if this is possible.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote on 2011-04-13:

pnginsvg.py Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

Script to wrap a PNG/JPEG/other raster image base64 encoded inside a minimal SVG wrapper.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote on 2011-04-14:

This appears that it will need a code tweak too; the large-size 'applications.png' and 'files.png' are being overloaded from the Launcher and also used in the dash.

John Lea (johnlea) on 2011-04-19

tags:	added: udo
Changed in ayatana-design:
importance:	High → Medium

Paul Sladen (sladen) on 2011-04-19

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
milestone:	ubuntu-11.04 → oneiric-updates

Jason Smith (jassmith) on 2011-05-05

Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
importance:	Wishlist → Low
milestone:	none → ux-backlog-1

Jorge Castro (jorge) on 2011-06-06

Changed in unity:
milestone:	ux-backlog-1 → backlog
assignee:	Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers)

Jorge Castro (jorge) on 2011-06-06

tags:

added: backlog

carl (carllove1-gmail) on 2011-08-15

Changed in unity:
assignee:	Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers) → carl (carllove1-gmail)

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-08-15:

I believe this got assigned by mistake, if you plan to work on the bug please feel free to assign it to you again

Changed in unity:
assignee:	carl (carllove1-gmail) → Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers)

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2011-09-24

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
milestone:	oneiric-updates → none
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
assignee:	Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers) → nobody
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Unity Community Hackers (unity-community-hackers) → nobody
Changed in unity:
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released
status:	Fix Released → Fix Committed
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released