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pidgin package

pidgin program icon doesn't scale

Bug #216460 reported by Ilmari Vacklin
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin doesn't appear to have a scalable (SVG) icon. This leads to very ugly results when using e.g. Gnome-do, which renders the program icon at a very large size.

Tags: regression
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Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian) wrote :

To clarify, this bug is not about the notification area icon.

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Spoker (christophe-indevuyst) wrote :

I put the pidgin starten on my desktop and scalabality was no problem. It scaled without loss of quality.

Changed in pidgin:
status: New → Invalid
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Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian) wrote :

Well, it doesn't work for me. Attaching a screenshot that shows the bug on Hardy.

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Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian) wrote :

I'm setting this back to "new", please close again if you determine the fault is mine and not pidgin's. :)

Changed in pidgin:
status: Invalid → New
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Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian) wrote :

To clarify, this worked for Spoker on Gutsy, but on Hardy, the icon is not scalable. Marked as a regression.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in pidgin:
status: New → Incomplete
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Ilmari Vacklin (wolverian) wrote : Re: [Bug 216460] Re: pidgin program icon doesn't scale

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:42:28PM -0000, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04?
> Thanks in advance.

Yes, this still happens on that same machine, with Ubuntu 8.10. There is
nothing relevant to icons when I do

    find ~ -iname '*pidgin*'

which would indicate it's not my fault, unless I've actually modified
the global install at some point, which I do not think I've done.

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Jacob Emcken (jacob-emcken) wrote :

This is still an issue using Jaunty

Attached a screenshot trying to start Pidgin from Gnome-Do.

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Jacob Emcken (jacob-emcken) wrote :

This bug might be a dupe of:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/337374

The other bug also links to a bug report on Pidgins trac:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8556

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Jacob Emcken (jacob-emcken) wrote :

Just noticed that the bug was set to incomplete... this is still an issue - reopening

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Changed in pidgin:
status: Unknown → New
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David Gómez (dabisu) wrote :

I'm using 9.04 and the bug is still present :-(. When using Gnome-do it doesn't seems to be using a SVG icon.

David Gómez (dabisu)
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Andreas (andy297) wrote :

Pidgin frequently crashes after starting ubuntu 10.10

Attached you will find a bug-generator-text created. A window message instructs me to directly report this bug to pidgin.

Thanx!

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