Bug 236596 – games-puzzle/pingus-0.7.2: use alternative icon instead of current that looks distorted in menu

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2008-09-03 16:52:57 UTC]

Current icon is too tall and, then, at least under gnome, looks distorted in menu

I attach a diff for the ebuild to use an alternative icon that looks better in menu

Anyway, I don't know why I need to login and logout from gnome to see new icon, as I thought that gtk-update-icon-cache were only needed when ebuilds install things in /usr/share/icons (I have seen this strange behavior in other games-* ebuilds while others work fine)

Thanks a lot

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-03 16:54:30 UTC]

Created attachment 164501 [details]
pingus.diff

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2008-09-04 16:33:08 UTC]

Well, I agree the existing icon is ugly.  However, the one in your patch isn't that much of an improvement imho.  I changed it to use a single-pingus picture at least so it's not totally unclear what the icon is, but it's still not great.

Ideally, upstream would package a nice-looking svg file just for the icon, but you'll have to take that request upstream.

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2008-09-04 16:34:16 UTC]

oh, and the way I get the icon to change in the menu is to just do:

killall gnome-panel

in a terminal.  It restarts and that flushes the cache it had.  Could be a more elegant method but it beats logging out and back in.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-04 16:48:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> oh, and the way I get the icon to change in the menu is to just do:
> 
> killall gnome-panel
> 
> in a terminal.  It restarts and that flushes the cache it had.  Could be a more
> elegant method but it beats logging out and back in.
> 

Thanks :-)

I have just mailed to upstream mailling list asking for this

I have seen that mandriva is providing some interesting icons for 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16 sizes

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-04 16:49:12 UTC]

Created attachment 164582 [details]
pingus.16.png

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-04 16:49:22 UTC]

Created attachment 164583 [details]
pingus.32.png

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-04 16:49:33 UTC]

Created attachment 164585 [details]
pingus.48.png