Not showing app, because they have bad looking icons, seems like a bad idea to me.
what about using some cairo magic to merge the .xpm icon with some other .png frame to make it look better http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10983739/how-to-composite-multiple-png-into-a-single-png-using-gtk-cairo cairo should be able to load XPM, as far as I know Or just show some standard icon base on the app category Tim On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > XPM is an old standard for icons used by a very small number of > desktop packages in Fedora. The XPM icons are normally small, mostly 8 > bit, and usually without an alpha channel and look very bad in the > software center. > > I'm going to propose for F21 that we drop support for XPM in the > metadata extractor and only show apps with GIF, PNG and SVG icons. The > list of affected GUI applications is here: > > TeXmacs > cycle > flamerobin > gnurobots > linsmith > mup > pari-gp > pgadmin3 > qtel > qucs > xsensors > > As usual, I'd like to push packagers to get upstream to ship a more > modern (and high resolution, *with* alpha channel) icon in PNG or SVG > format, but packagers can also just replace the icon referenced in the > .desktop file if upstream is unwilling / dead and a good replacement > is available. > > Comments welcome, > > Richard > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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