Hopefully the blurry/fuzziness of the icon is coming through in the screenshot. All the other icons look crisp.
Scaling is at 100%. Icons-Only Task Manager. Panel width is set to 68.
This particular icon comes from a .desktop file I created (in ~/.local/share/applications) to override that app’s default icon. I created an SVG image for it. However, it looks blurry compared to the other icons which are unchanged.
I figured svg would be easiest to use as it would correctly scale with panel size. I find this happens with other svg icons around the place too (though I can’t think of specifics at this moment, just that I’ve noted it happening on occasion).
Thanks for your reply. I discovered something else in the process of trying out a png. For a suitably sized PNG, I resized the svg (which was a weird size of 500 and something px and not square) to 64x64px. I exported to png but also saved the SVG, overwriting the original size (since being SVG, it doesn’t matter too much what the original size is given it can be rescaled at will). Only to find that the icon now looks crisp without even having to switch to the png.
So it’s possibly something to do with the way SVG files are being scaled down? Technically this means this no longer an issue for me, but also still annoying from the perspective of having to make the svg icon sized (having to zoom in Inkscape to work on the image, for example) or having to have multiple sizes of svg (working size and then 64, 32, 16px, etc.) just to account for icons rendering blurry if they have to be scaled down…
Svg can have internally dimensions set, that our rendering honored, as you noticed when opening the svg, then scaling down indeed.
This is because, the task manager does not precisely in advance the image size it will need, the same icon can be displayed bigger on some cases (alt-tab big icons…).
