In Fedora 21 we show any valid application in the software center with an application icon of 32x32 or larger. Currently a 32x32 icon has to be padded with 16 pixels of whitespace on all 4 edges, and *also* has to be scaled x2 to match other UI elements on HiDPI screens. This looks fuzzy, out of alignment and lowers the quality of an otherwise beautiful installing experience.

For Fedora 22 we are planning to increase the minimum icon size to 48x48, with recommended installed sizes of 24x24, 48x48, 64x64, 256x256 (or SVG). Modern desktop applications typically ship multiple sizes of icons in known locations, and it's very much the minority of packages in Fedora that only ship such small icons.

I'm asking package maintainers linked below to install a larger icon than 32x32 in the package. Most of the time this will involve just installing a different icon from the tarball, but could also mean contacting upstream and asking them for larger icons and a new tarball release. If you're asking upstream, please ask for a 256x256 or 64x64 icon, as the latter will probably be the minimum size for F23 and beyond.

Updated packages should be built for F22 (rawhide) before the end of October; after that I'll start mass-filing bugs for the remainder of the packages. If you want to fix up F20 and F21 too that would be great, but not expected. At the end of November I'll change the minimum icon size in the AppStream generator so that applications not fixed will be dropped from the metadata. You can of course install the applications in F22 with dnf on the command line, but they won't be visible in the software center until they are installed.

If you're unclear on what needs to be done in order to be listed in the AppStream metadata, refer to this https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib#what-is-an-application or send me email.

I've included a list of packages and the maintainers below. You can either reply to this email when you've fixed a package, or not; I'll regenerate the list of affected packages again in a month, and then again before I mass file bugs. Thanks.

Richard.

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