How to get a bigger icon in the application switcher

Frank Steinmetzger Warp_7 at gmx.de
Sun Apr 27 17:17:06 BST 2014


Hi group

I’m having a slight issue with my KDE on Gentoo. I enabled the application
switcher theme with larger icons, as I dislike the default one ever
since it started showing all non-selected icons in greyscale.

Some applications still appear with a small icon (i.e. 48×48 Pixel) in
it. One of them is Konqueror (though that doesn’t bother me much), and
more importantly Firefox. Initially I hoped it to be a packaging problem –
the Gentoo package only installed a 48×48 icon into /usr/share/pixmaps.
So I filed a bug about that.¹

You can read some more details in there (it’s not very long), because I
did have big icons with Arch linux which shared its home partition with
my Gentoo system.

These are the icons currently installed by Gentoo’s Firefox package:
frank asp ~ qlist firefox-bin|grep png
/opt/firefox/icons/updater.png
/opt/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/icon.png
/opt/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png
/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
/opt/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firefox-bin.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firefox-bin.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firefox-bin.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/firefox-bin.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-bin-icon.png

In said bug report, I reference some other resource stating that the
pixmaps directory was deprecated. How is that handled in KDE (i.e. does
it have precedence over hicolor?) Just to give it a try, I deleted the
pixmap file, logged out, cleared my cache both in /var/tmp/kdecache and
in ~/.kde4/cache/icon-cache.kcache and logged back in. But I still have
a small icon.

Can you advise me on how to proceed? What am I missing?

¹ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465130
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