[AppStream] Including High Contrast icons in AppStream metadata

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Feb 29 09:25:58 UTC 2016


On 29 February 2016 at 00:31, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
> The AppStream icon cache is supposed to follow the XDG icon theme
> spec, which in fact it doesn't do. Maybe we should finally make it
> compliant.

In what sense? Have icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/?

> I also have a bug report that we actually assume that the 128x128
> icons are HiDPI icons, while that is actually not always true, and we
> should use the (admittedly, weird) scaling factor spec for that.

How many apps have different icons for 128x128 and 64x64 at 2? I don't know of any.

> If we go for the scaling factor stuff too, 128x128 would vanish as an
> icon size, and the size string for those would be "64x64 at 2".

I can very easily support this in appstream-glib if this is what you want to do.

Richard.


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