Comment 8 for bug 598861

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
<email address hidden> wrote:
>> The options are:
>>
>> 1) Wait for the new spread stuff to land where we'll use bamf for hi-res icons
>> 2) Make window->getIcon wrappable, create a plugin to use bamf to get
>> the hi-res icon
>> 3) Ask GNOME nicely to make their _NET_WM_ICON a bit bigger :)
>
> I'm sorry, but I'm not a hacker, neither am I knowledgeable about X and
> GTK. Could you please explain what that means for and end user?

All applications set a window property which contains pixel data about their
application icon, so that window managers and task switchers can display
that icon where it is appropriate.

>
> Also, I run GNOME Shell that is packaged for Maverick, and the icons in
> its task switcher are of similar size to that of Compiz task switcher
> icons, and yet they don't have this problem. Please see enclosed
> screenshot.

Unfortunately it seems like g-s is using the desktop file to get the big icon
and not using _NET_WM_ICON (or updating their applications for big icons).

This behavior is non standards compliant.

>
> BTW can't this _NET_WM_ICON property be set in Ubuntu? Would that mean
> patching every GTK application?
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "gnome-shell-task-switcher.png"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/598861/+attachment/1786679/+files/gnome-shell-task-switcher.png
>
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> Title:
>  Compiz application switcher uses blurry, pixelated icons
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