262265 - Provide anti-aliased PNG icons for Gnome and KDE

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

This is the Thunderbind version of bug 261679. 

The icon provided for Linux looks bad compared to KDE or Gnome icons due to the
lack of anti-aliasing. Copying the OS X icon (as PNG) over remedies the problem.

It would be nice if the branding materials for Linux included the same icon that
is used on OS X (or anti-aliased icons tuned specifically for Gnome and KDE), so
that it would be easy for distros to roll out packages whose icons don't look
out of place in KDE and Gnome.

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: Anti-aliased pngcrushed 128 by 128 Thunderbind app icon

Attaching a PNG version of the OS X icon.

Comment 2

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Steven, could you also provide the 128x128 icon for the generic (non-branded)
Thunderbird?

Comment 3

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Attachment: patch

patch for both icon sets

Comment 4

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Comment on attachment 186677 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

This now has Asa's approval for 1.1a2, but should not be checked-in until we
have mozicon128.png for the non-branded builds.

Comment 5

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

sure. I'm also waiting for r+sr from mscott.

Comment 6

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Re: Comment #2 from Marek A. Stepien:

I'm not sure a larger version of the generic (non-branded) Thunderbird icon
exists. It was around before I came along. Does anyone know where we could find
a larger original copy?

The only 128px icon I know of is the goofy old Mac OS X one:
http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/thunderbird.png

Comment 7

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I'm not sure a larger version of the generic (non-branded) Thunderbird icon
> exists. It was around before I came along. Does anyone know where we could find
> a larger original copy?

The current 50px and 16px versions of mozicon.xpm (mail/app/mozicon*.xpm in CVS)
use the Qute envelope icon with the old Thunderbird logo (that blue leaves
orwhatever that is ;))

Or - maybe just like Firefox: unofficial logo is the globe without the fox, so
maybe we should remove the Bird from the official Tb logo and just leave the
envelope? I suppose John Hicks could help here.

Either way, mozicon*.xpm should be consistent with mozicon128.png.

Comment 8

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Maybe that Asa knows where to look for this icon

Comment 9

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Checking in mail/app/Makefile.in;
/cvsroot/mozilla/mail/app/Makefile.in,v  <--  Makefile.in
new revision: 1.49; previous revision: 1.48
done
Checking in other-licenses/branding/thunderbird/Makefile.in;
/cvsroot/mozilla/other-licenses/branding/thunderbird/Makefile.in,v  <--  Makefile.in
new revision: 1.8; previous revision: 1.7
done
Checking in other-licenses/branding/thunderbird/mozicon128.png;
/cvsroot/mozilla/other-licenses/branding/thunderbird/mozicon128.png,v  <--  mozicon128.png
initial revision: 1.1
done

Comment 10

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Please check http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Sunbird

Seems that your checkin broke the Lightning builds:

gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/builds/tinderbox/Lt-Trunk/Linux_2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/lightning-obj/mail/app/profile'
/builds/tinderbox/Lt-Trunk/Linux_2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/lightning-obj/config/nsinstall -D ../../dist/branding
cp /builds/tinderbox/Lt-Trunk/Linux_2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/mail/app/mozicon128.png ../../dist/branding/mozicon128.png
cp: cannot stat `/builds/tinderbox/Lt-Trunk/Linux_2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp_Depend/mozilla/mail/app/mozicon128.png': No such file or directory

Comment 11

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

damn. Backed out. I'm going to hunt for that non-branded icon :(

Comment 12

[Mark Gordon]

Any news on this?

Comment 13

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Work for current linux icons is being done in bug 415415