T10243: Some KDE applications could use better icons

[Mariusz Glebocki]

mglb added a comment.


  In T10243#201329 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T10243#201329>, @alex-l wrote:
  
  > EDIT: I have already said this here and there but please don't run any automated script to SVG icons, because when opening them back in Inkscape they are corrupted and everytime I edit a Breeze icon I have to do additional work to fix shapes and gradients corrupted by the scripts.
  
  
  Samples please, it would be nice to fix inkscape and/or scripts.
  Also, we could store original/inkscape-friendly svg files in repo and run optimization script as part of install process.
  
  > The diagonal thing in Konsole icon is to add some identity, without it we would have a classic terminal icon.
  
  Why "different"/non-classic icon is better than classic terminal icon? Classic one is already known and everyone will be able to find it in their menu.
  
  > Any ideas on how to add identity in general?
  
  Basic/core applications (i.e. KWrite, Konsole, Dolphin, etc) come with the system "by default" and users need to find them easily without knowing how an app icon looks like in specific desktop environment. I guess people see them as "built-in" functions, not as stand-alone applications.
  
  In T10243#201334 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T10243#201334>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > In T10243#201332 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T10243#201332>, @alex-l wrote:
  >
  > > @ngraham I don't know about macOS, but ElementaryOS icons look so good because they are designed for each size and I don't think we have the manpower to do that to Breeze icons.
  >
  >
  > But we already do this. Despite the fact that we use arbitrarily scalable SVG icons, we generally provide several sizes for each one so they look pixel-perfect at the common sizes that they're intended to be viewed at.
  
  
  We already explicitly suggest to make 48px application icons only <https://hig.kde.org/style/icons/application.html> (only few have more sizes). Titlebar and taskbar use ~22px icons, so you can either get bad looking small icons, or give up with nice details on 48px ones.

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