The ebuild for firefox-bin currently installs a 48x48 pixel icon from chrome/icons/default/default48.png into /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-bin-icon.png. I would like to ask whether a bigger icon could be used. The binary archive even ships with one, at icons/mozicon128.png. The reason is that nowadays, icons in desktop environments become ever bigger, and a 48x48 icons appears lost between the other, much bigger ones, for example in KDE’s Alt-Tab task switcher. Thanks for your consideration. Reproducible: Always
+ 09 Apr 2013; Rick Farina <zerochaos@gentoo.org> +firefox-bin-20.0-r2.ebuild: + after discussing with maintainer here is my attempt at a fix for bug 465130, + hope everyone likes it I'm shipping the icons in a very similar style to the way the normal firefox ebuild does it now. Does this meet your needs? If not please reopen with details. Thanks for the request!
Sorry to disappoint, but I have to reopen (after a long time of not bothering with it). The icon appears small [again(?)]. I looked at how Arch is doing it, since there it works as requested. They install icons only into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/*, from 16x16 all the way through to 256x256. According to bug #359175, /usr/share/pixmap is deprecated. Maybe the pixmaps icon gets precedence over hicolor. So the easiest thing would be to simply not install into pixmaps.
I was researching this again last week. After some trial and error I finally got my KDE to show big icons. During my attempts I created icon sets in hicolor with files called firefox.png, firefox-bin.png and firefox-bin-icon.png. I don’t know for sure what did the trick in the end. I suspect now the following line in the .desktop file to be the cause: ICON=firefox-bin-icon while the actual icon files in /usr/share/icons/hicolor are named firefox-bin. So I reckon that since they are not found, the pixmap is used as fallback. I tried to confirm this theory by deleting the firefox-bin-icon.png files, logged out of KDE, cleared my KDE cache and logged back in, but the icon was still large. There must be something intervening in the inner works of KDE.
Indeed, pixmaps icon takes precedence. Why are we shipping it? hicolors icons would be enough Thanks
Interestingly, blender 2.70 installs hicolor icons up to 256×256 and *none* into pixmaps, and it also is only show with a small icon in KDE’s app switcher. So I’m out of logic. :-/
I have seen icons are named in two ways: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/firefox-bin.png /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-bin-icon.png But .desktop file is forced to use pixmaps icon as it states: Icon=firefox-bin-icon Per: https://developer.gnome.org/icon-theme-spec/ "By default, apps should look in $HOME/.icons (for backwards compatibility), in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons and in /usr/share/pixmaps (in that order)." Then, this should be solved renaming all icons to the same name and app should take the best icon. I would rename all to firefox-bin.png and make the desktop look for it.
And, indeed, it fixes the problem \o/, I can commit the changes if you prefer ;)
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #7) > And, indeed, it fixes the problem \o/, I can commit the changes if you > prefer ;) commit it when you have a chance please.
+ 16 Jun 2014; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> files/firefox-bin.desktop, + firefox-bin-17.0.10.ebuild, firefox-bin-17.0.9.ebuild, + firefox-bin-24.5.0.ebuild, firefox-bin-24.6.0.ebuild, firefox-bin-30.0.ebuild: + Allow bigger icon to be used (#465130) +
I removed all firefox icons from /usr/share/icons/hicolor, including my manual modifications, logged out of KDE and ran kbuildsycoca --noincremental on a console. I logged back in and opened firefox -- the big 128×128 icon was still shown when pressing alt-tab. Then I synced portage and reinstalled firefox-bin. I hate to be a party pooper, but now the icon is displayed at 48×48 again. I guess it's not the fault of the firefox ebuild though, rather something in KDE seems wrong. I will try and take it up with them. Thanks for the effort anyway.
