Bug 433139 - Program and window icons: Eclipse marble is not a circle
Summary: Program and window icons: Eclipse marble is not a circle
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Releng (show other bugs)
Version: 4.4   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Releng-Inbox CLA
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Depends on: 433094
Blocks: 433868
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Reported: 2014-04-21 11:00 EDT by Holger Voormann CLA
Modified: 2014-04-30 12:11 EDT (History)
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Eclipse marble is 230px wide but 223px instead of 230px high (31.38 KB, image/png)
2014-04-21 11:00 EDT, Holger Voormann CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Holger Voormann CLA 2014-04-21 11:00:01 EDT 
Created attachment 242161 [details]
Eclipse marble is 230px wide but 223px instead of 230px high

The Eclipse marble of the program and window icons is not a perfect circle. For instance, in eclipse256.png (http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.git/plain/platform/org.eclipse.platform/eclipse256.png) the Eclipse marble is 230px wide but 223px instead of 230px high: see attached image
Comment 1 David Williams CLA 2014-04-21 15:34:55 EDT 
Are you just making an observation? ... Or, think that not being a circle is causing problems? 

Thanks for the observation, though.
Comment 2 Holger Voormann CLA 2014-04-21 15:50:27 EDT 
(In reply to David Williams from comment #1)
It's not precisely a problem but for aesthetic reasons it would be nice to have a perfect circle, wouldn't it?
Comment 3 David Williams CLA 2014-04-21 16:58:16 EDT 
(In reply to Holger Voormann from comment #2)
> (In reply to David Williams from comment #1)
> It's not precisely a problem but for aesthetic reasons it would be nice to
> have a perfect circle, wouldn't it?

Yes (probably) ... I was just trying to get you to state "the problem to solve" ... and I think "look bad because its not a precisely a circle" is a fine bug. 
But ... in this case, I suspect the designer did it since the "crescent" for to "balances out" the circle ... and maybe it'll look lopsided, if marble is perfect circle ... But, I'm wondering if some of the "not perfect circle" is part of the reason it doesn't scale down as smoothly has it has in the past. So, will make that part of my investigation. 

Thanks again,
Comment 4 Holger Voormann CLA 2014-04-21 18:28:29 EDT 
(In reply to David Williams from comment #3)
In the original logo it is a perfect circle (see http://eclipse.org/artwork/). Only the program and window icons of all sizes (except the 16x16 icon which did not have the orange crescent) are affected. In my eyes it's not a feature, it's a (minor) bug.
Comment 5 David Williams CLA 2014-04-30 12:11:57 EDT 
Will count this as an enhancement request, as part of the general "improve icon appearance" bug 433868.