1193381 - Ubuntu Firefox icon pixelated on HiDPI display

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Marketing :: Design, task)

Description

[Gene Wood [:gene]]

The Firefox icon delivered with the Ubuntu package of Firefox is 128px by 128px. On a "HiDPI" [1] monitor with scaling enabled, this results in the Firefox icon looking pixelated. Many Ubuntu application icons are 256px by 256px and as a result look great.

:mart3ll could you provide a 256px by 256px version of the Firefox logo to either the Ubuntu Firefox package maintainers through launchpad [2] or [e-mail] ?

This will allow them to update the package to deliver a higher resolution icon, in line with what most other packages deliver these days.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Display
[2] : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+filebug

Comment 1

[Chris Coulson]

We currently just use browser/branding/official/mozicon128.png, which gets installed with make install (in to browser/icons). It looks like there is already a 256x256 icon in the source tree (browser/branding/official/default256.png), although this is packed in to the omni.ja and it only exists for the official branding.

Comment 2

[Jennifer Balaco]

The logo can be found on the style guide (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/identity/firefox/branding/) and sized as needed.

Comment 3

[Gene Wood [:gene]]

Chris,
   Would it make most sense to begin delivering a new 256 pixel image in browser/branding/official/ [3] that could be consumed by your packaging logic with a name like mozicon256.png? Is using the 256 pixel icon that you call out [4] a good solution? If default256.png is packed into omni.ja [5] does that mean that it's not easily available to your packaging logic at the time the Ubuntu package is created?

I'm also happy to move this ticket to launchpad since it sounds like the actual imagery is already available, we just need to figure out the best way to get it used by the packaging. Let me know if you'd like me to close this and open a launchpad bug.

[3]: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/38c1ea9ccae3/browser/branding/official/mozicon128.png
[4]: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/38c1ea9ccae3/browser/branding/official/default256.png
[5]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/About_omni.ja_%28formerly_omni.jar%29

Comment 4

[Chris Coulson]

I'm ok with just modifying our packaging to grab the existing 256x256 image from the source tree and installing that. Feel free to open a Launchpad bug for that, and I'll get that fixed for the next release

Comment 5

[Gene Wood [:gene]]

Sure thing, I've opened this bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1498972