I have xfdesktop configured to display minimized application icons. When the icon size is set to 32 px icons show fine. When a larger size is selected, xfdesktop scales the 32px icon instead of using a larger one. The result is that the icons look blurry. This does not happen if the desktop is configured to display files/launchers. In that case icons scale well. xfdesktop should choose the icon file that matches the selected size, or use svg icons.
It's a limitation in wnck. It's fixed in wnck3 so we can fix this bug when we go to Gtk3.
4.13.x now use gtk3 / libwnck3. Maybe this is fixable now ? I can still reproduce the issue.
Created attachment 8732 select correct icon size Using wnck_set_default_icon_size seems to fix the problem
Yeah, I guess that (simple) patch should do the trick.
Created attachment 8735 screenshot.png I didn't notice any difference with or without the patch. I restarted xfwm4, no difference. Am I missing something?
Created attachment 8738 Select correct icon size You have this behavior because you are using the default icon-size (DEFAULT_ICON_SIZE 48), so the resize is not triggered. Updated patch displays the correct icon size even on first draw.
Romain Bouvier referenced this bugreport in commit 58bf697484a75f7bf47002912d532a958a75ef1f Display correct icon size of minimized apps (Bug #8951) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit?id=58bf697484a75f7bf47002912d532a958a75ef1f
Now it looks good, thanks Skunnyk!