make the launcher icon square

[rocketinventor]

In the Charmander Concept, the launcher icon is a square with edge to edge borders. This would mean that the launcher_bfb.svg icon would have to be converted from a circle to a square (easy to do with any SVG editor,) and it's orange borders would need to be extended.

[btd1337]

In original concept the launcher icons is a circle, look this image.

When it is clicked, forms the orange square. Look:

[rakshith-ravi]

I'd start working on it. Would changing the svg file do it all?

[btd1337]

This change affects more than svg file.

[rocketinventor]

@rakshithravi1997 If you look carefully at the launcher, you'll see that all icons have padding that's why it's more than svg.
@btd1337 This would be CSS thing, right?
I know CSS but, I've never done a Ubuntu theme before. What needs to be done?
unity.css?

[btd1337]

Read this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Theming
http://www.linux.org/threads/installing-obtaining-and-making-gtk-themes.8463/
http://worldofgnome.org/how-to-hack-gnomes-adwaita-gtk-theme/

[rakshith-ravi]

@rocketinventor Agreed. Just tried changing the svg file and it does seem to have a margin. Not sure where the change the margin though. What if we were to give the Unity bar itself a background of the same colour just for the first icon? Wouldn't that solve the issue and make it look like there's no padding? Not sure if it's possible though
@btd1337 This is not an enhancement. This is a necessity for the theme if we are making it as it is. Please remove the enhancement label

[rocketinventor]

@rakshithravi1997 If it's a theme, pretty much anything that is not a bug is an enhancement, right?
@btd1337 I read through the articles and did some more research on it. In Unity 7+, only THEME_PATH/unity/launcher_bfb.{svg, png} can be customized. 😦
It seems like the launcher source itself would have to be modified.

[rakshith-ravi]

@rocketinventor Agreed. But I just didn't want every issue to have an enhancement tag :P
Let's just keep it for issues that might be good but isn't implemented in the original mock-up project.

I am a programmer myself. If you can provide me with links on how to modify the source code for the unity launcher itself, I'd be happy to implement it

[btd1337]

I'm also learning about it...