Compiz uses low-resolution, non-power-of-2 icon texture sizes

Bug #1173914 reported by MC Return
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Bug Description

1. Texture sizes should *always* be power-of-2, otherwise they will be internally upscaled to the next higher power-of-2 resolution, which means this comes with a loss of quality (with all the known scaling issues).

Non-power-of-2 resolutions should *never* be used for textures.

Example: 96x96 becomes 128x128 internally, so the 96 pixels have to be upscaled to 128, which creates scaling artifacts.

2. 96x96 or even lower sizes are not good sizes for icons, especially if they get upscaled to 50% of the screen width in the
case of "Big" overlay icon modes of our Switchers (Shift, Stack, Ring) - please see bug #1173694 for details on this issue.

[Solution]

We should increase the icon texture sizes to at least 256x256, which is quite the standard in 2013.
We should investigate if we could force Compiz to load the .svg version of the icon, if available, because vectorgraphics could be scaled without any artifacts.

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MC Return (mc-return)
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status: New → In Progress
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PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:compiz at revision None, scheduled for release in compiz, milestone 0.9.10.0

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status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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kolya (mar-kolya) wrote :

It looks like that in addition to regression described in LP #1186426 fix to has been committed there is very similar regression in switcher plugin - icons are very-very large. I would guess that cause is the same, but I'm not exactly sure how this should be fixed though, since 'switcher' plugin doesn't have its own icon size definition.

MC Return (mc-return)
Changed in compiz:
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 0.9.10.0
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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Fix Released in Compiz Compiz 0.9.10.0.

Changed in compiz:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.10+13.10.20130822-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.10+13.10.20130822-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Sam Spilsbury ]
  * Bump version to 0.9.10

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * Remove debian/patches/unity_support_test.patch:
    - Running the support test from compiz has bad side effects, from now
      on we run it from Xsession.d
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3644

  [ Iven Hsu ]
  * Opacify: Only dim the windows above the active window.(LP:
    #1189374). (LP: #1189374)
  * KWD: Fix compile errors with KDE 4.11. The KWin developers made
    kdecorationbridge.h private. See:
    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2013-March/003479.html
    (LP: #1193792). (LP: #1193792)

  [ Nikolay Martynov ]
  * When static switcher is enabled and has an option to show
    application icon turned on the icons are expected to be ~1/3 of a
    thumbnail (48px). Instead they are displayed in 512px size and
    completely cover everything. This change addresses this issue. See
    LP #1173914. (LP: #1173914, #1186426)

  [ BryanFRitt ]
  * Fixed the non-working Annotate 'Clear' Button. Moved this option's
    CCSM position upwards to keep the button shortcuts together. (LP:
    #1202907). (LP: #1202907)

  [ Mehrdad Afshari ]
  * Added "move window to previous monitor" feature to compiz Put
    plugin. (LP: #1178581)

  [ Hu Kang ]
  * gtk-window-decorator: destroy action menu when any of the (close,
    min, max) buttons on the title bar is pressed. (LP: #1101648)
  * Remove redundant src/logmessage/include/core/logmessage.h (LP:
    #1067246). (LP: #1067246)

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Fix for bug #763148 (with added test cases): when the desktop is
    resized, windows should stay on their original workspace. (LP:
    #763148)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * Unrevert 3728, fix failing tests. Change the behaviour of
    undecorating windows. Previously when a window was undecorated, we
    would shift it back to an appropriate position according to its
    gravity member. That behaviour was problematic because in the
    StaticGravity case the window has to just stay in the same place.
    But then if you had a window with StaticGravity which then did get a
    decoration and later removed it, it would be placed as though it was
    decorated and appear to be in the wrong place. The correct behaviour
    is to place all windows as though they have decorations, and then
    when decorations are removed, to move the window back to the corner
    as indicated in its gravity and then expand its size to cover the
    obscured regions no longer hidden because the decorations went away.
    (LP: #1165343).   1. Completely remove decorOffsetMove and other
    related code from      decor.cpp. Put the logic to handle the
    window->input () - window->border ()      placement offset inside of
    setWindowFrameExtents instead. Now the window      will always be
    offset from its original non-decorated position to the new
         decorated position, rather than having to guess between
    decoration sizes.   2. Make saveGeometry and restoreGeometry work
    relative to window->border ()      a...

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