Re: jessie: Some GTK apps display svg pixmaps as giant icons

[Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>]

hi Emilio,

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> writes:
> On 09/11/14 17:03, Felix Natter wrote:
>> Dear gtk-gnome-maintainers,
>> 
>> there is a bug in GTK(?) applications (nautilus, pavucontrol, probably
>> more) where (svg?) icons are way too large in current jessie:
>> 
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765069
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768256
>> 
>> It is easily reproducible by installing vim-gtk, creating a .txt file
>> and selecting Open with-> ... in nautilus for that file.
>> (the vim icon will be huge).
>> 
>> Alternatively, see screenshot of "pavucontrol" with a running "scummvm"
>> session:
>> http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~fnatte2s/pavucontrol-large-icon.png
>> 
>> I have commented 765069 (nautilus) and 768256 (vim-gui-common) but does
>> anybody think this should be reported against GTK?
>
> Apparently this was an intentional change in GTK+ 3.14, see
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765069#49
>
> I haven't looked at the impact of it and whether it's reasonable and feasible to
> revert it for Jessie. For now, it's probably best to file bugs for the
> applications that broke.

Done.

Without intending to offend anyone, but maybe it was not a good idea to
make this change in a GTK point-release :-/

Cheers and Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter