I know that there are many icon theme packages, but really, I think Ubuntu should be able to provide vectorized icons with any settings found in the system. So please no third party packages for the task.
System Ubuntu 14.04 on Macbook Air 2013-mid natively, Linux kernel 4.2.0…-generic, display resolution is 1440×900. I really would like to have vectorised images. In Settings
- Displays > Scale for menu and title bars: 0.875 which makes the icons rasterized and blurry.
- Appearance > Launcher icon size less than 30. Etc 28 and 24. I cannot reproduce the effect with bigger icons.
The effect is independent of
- Default theme. You choose Ambience (default), Radiance and High Contrast in Settings > Appearance > Theme. My examples are with High Contrast.
- Background. Choose anything you like. I am using a "space" background in the examples.
How can you have Vectorized Unity Icons in Ubuntu 14.04 by Defaults?
Best Answer
The default icon theme in Ubuntu does use mostly vector (SVG) icons. For smaller sizes though, icons tend to be raster images, in order for the icons to be pixel perfect.
However, all graphics are going to be rendered into pixels for display. When you scale them to odd sizes, there are going to be artifacts, even for SVG icons.
For the best looking app icons in the launcher panel, make sure the launcher icon size is set to a value which is a multiple of 8, such as 32 or 48 pixels.