There are two points of view expressed in the referenced bug: 1. that the Tango icon theme is broken and provides emblems that are too big (Federico's comments) 2. that Nautilus is broken and should request a different icon size when asking for the emblems, and the Tango theme is correct (Jakub's and Rodney's comments).
The Nautilus code and the default "gnome" icon theme seem to support option (1). So in the context of the rest of the stuff shipping in Dapper, it is definitely a theme bug. It is also worth noting that option (1) allows the theme to pick what size icons should be with respect to the main icons, which would not really be possible -- Giant Desktop emblem https://launchpad.net/bugs/47001 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
