Bug 21848

Summary:	Create location link on desktop using favicon.ico
Product:	kdesktop	Reporter:	Stephan Binner <binner>
Component:	icons	Assignee:	Benoit Walter <b.walter>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, kde-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Stephan Binner 2001-03-07 21:48:58 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kdesktop
Version:           KDE 2.1.0 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

Implement when dragging an URL to the desktop and creating a link a [scaled] favicon.ico if present is used instead of a standard icon.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2002-10-26 11:00:57 UTC

*** Bug 21217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2002-10-30 07:14:40 UTC

Slightly related: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110894

Comment 3 Jesper Juhl 2002-11-25 02:12:23 UTC

I agree that using favicon.ico should be possible, but it should be optional - some users may 
prefer the current behaviour. Using favicon.ico should be the default though (IMHO).

Comment 4 Sander Devrieze 2003-09-13 18:13:27 UTC

I think it's better to show a standard link icon with a non-scaled smaller
favicon.ico on top of this icon in one of the corners. Otherwise you will get
very ugly icons if they are scaled to a bigger size. Especially when the other
icons on the desktop are in svg format and so very beautiful.

Comment 5 Doncho N. Gunchev 2004-12-28 13:21:29 UTC

Site icons are not always windows icons and one windows icon can contain multiple images with different sizes.

Comment 6 Janet 2007-03-09 16:22:44 UTC

The favions are only stored as 16x16 pngs, no matter which icon sizes the site favicon contains. So scaling that up always would produce a badly blurry icon (imagine I have set my desktop icons to 72, my friend to 128 - scaled up from 16x16 would look terrible).

I second Comment #4. Links should behave the same way bookmarks do. When I create a bookmark link in the bookmarks toolbar and the bookmarks toolbar is set to 16x16 the favicon saved in ~/.kde/cache-<computername>/favicons is used. But when I set the bookmarks toolbar size to 32x32 or bigger the www mimetype icon is used with the favion as overlay. The same should be possible for links dragged to the desktop.

Comment 7 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:47:04 UTC

Comment #4 behaviour has been implemented on KDE4.