** Description changed:
Currently, showing an app icon in the correct Ubuntu shape requires
shaping it when you are using it.
For example, ensuring that "iconFrame" is set to "True" when using
ListItem.Standard{}.
<http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/devel/ubuntu-13.04/qml/ui-toolkit/qml-ubuntu-components-listitems0-standard.html>
That property is set to "True" by default, but it's not obvious why it
should be, and list items aren't the only place that app icons get used.
- So they have now ended up the wrong shape multiple times: in the System
- Settings "Updates" list (bug 1354478), in the "Notifications" screen,
- and in the Launcher (bug 1332119). And conversely, System Settings has
- also had non-app icons that were inappropriately framed like an app (bug
- 1288866 and bug 1365450).
+
+ The result is that several times now, app updates have ended up without the
appropriate frame:
+ - in the System Settings "Updates" list (bug 1354478)
+ - in the "Notifications" screen
+ - in the Launcher the frame is unintentionally different (bug 1332119).
+
+ Conversely, non-app icons have ended up *with* the frame by mistake:
+ - "Display language" (bug 1288866)
+ - "Orientation Lock" (bug 1365450)
+ - Ubuntu updates (bug 1367136).
On the API design quality scale, this is roughly "Read the
implementation and you'll get it right." <http://sweng.the-
davies.net/Home/rustys-api-design-manifesto>
I suggest that the toolkit move all the way up to "It's impossible to
get wrong", by always shaping an icon when it is an app icon, and never
otherwise. Whether an icon is an app icon could (I assume) be detected
by its path.
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App icons require shaping at every callsite
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