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Re: some icons at low resolution

 

Are you using raster icons?  That would explain distortion and pixelation.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM, supernova <supernova.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi to all. I have noticed that some icons are at very low resolution.
> I refer to these cases:
>
> a) skype icon in the dash: it really seams a very small icon, at low
> resolution, which was zoomed in many times.
> b) libreoffice-pack icons (write, calc, impress) in this situation: I
> usually reduce the size of the icons on the launcher from 48 to 36
> pixels. It happens that libreoffice icons appear in very low
> resolution. This doesn't happen to all the other icons, such as U1,
> Ubuntu Software Center, the Home Folder...
>
> I think that this happens because skype and libreoffice aren't native
> of the Gnome Environment. Did you think about a solution?
>  It is only a visual matter, but appearance is now very important,
> when talking about DEs.
>
> Bests,
> Supernova
>
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