Description

The current application icon guidelines are outdated.

Developers making applications for GNOME should not have to undertake more work to target our platform than they do others (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, etc.) by having to provide extra icon assets for small, low-resolution icon sizes.

As such, to avoid developers having to put in the effort on them, the 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 & 48x48 icon sizes will be deprecated in favour of symbolic icons and a single, scalable, high resolution application icon. These new application icons will be in vector (SVG) format to better suit scalability.

Goals

Update the icons portion of the Human Interface Guidelines

Update core apps with new icons acc. to this HIG

Suggest updates to a wider application ecosystem (Inkscape, GIMP, Blender...)

Update icon assets to use package name, e.g. org.gnome.App.svg

Improve rendering in gtk

Scope

gnome-devel-docs

core apps

People in charge & contact

Tobias Bernard (@bertob)

Lapo Calamandrei (@calamandrei)

Sam Hewitt (@snwh)

Jakub Steiner (@jimmac)

Contact us in #gnome-design

Instructions to achieve the goals

Label for tracking the initiative

9. Initiative: AppIconRedesign

Text for the initiative issue in projects

icon: update app icon - GNOME 3.32 redesign of app icons. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Initiatives/issues/2 for more info. /label ~"9. Initiative: AppIconRedesign"

List of projects & tasks

3.30

Core Apps:

Non-Core

Games

Third Party

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