Make site icons have transparent backgrounds

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This is a request to make the site's icons have transparent backgrounds. They are already PNGs, so they support that. This would make applications such as Droidstack look much better.

Although stackapps is the only one that has a non-white background, all the others have solid white backgrounds. Although this is not immediately annoying, it suddenly becomes so when putting a different background on an icon (for example when clicking on an item in Droidstack, the background turns orange but there's a nasty white square around the icon.. I'll try to upload a new video of it soon).

@code poet: I'm not sure what you're talking about, I was referring to the icon_url images as returned by some API calls. — Felix, Jun 19 '10 at 12:37
Felix, have you checked out this http://stackapps.com/questions/347/svg-versions-of-the-logos? I've used that useful package for my app and yes, they have trasparent backgrounds. — systempuntoout, Jun 19 '10 at 12:42
This is [status-planned]. As the quickest path to ground, the API is serving up resources we already had laying around. Eventually they'll be cleaned up explicitly for API purposes. — Kevin Montrose, Jun 19 '10 at 12:48
@sys Yes, but being able to fetch the icons from the API itself is much more versatile. @Kevin, thanks — Felix, Jun 19 '10 at 14:17

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '10 at 08:37

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The icon_url images returned by StackAuth (and /stats) should all now have transparent backgrounds.

answered Jul 11 '10 at 08:37

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I know I can figure this out for myself, but, have the URLs changed, or are they the same? (just need to know if I should re-cache my images) – Mark Henderson Jul 11 '10 at 09:01
@Farseeker - the same. – Kevin Montrose Jul 11 '10 at 09:31
@Kevin: Does this include the logos for the beta sites? – Nathan Osman Jul 11 '10 at 19:01
Cool banana, thanks. @George, looks like the beta sites are still solid – Mark Henderson Jul 11 '10 at 22:28
@George - the beta site logos are squares... so there is no difference between a solid background and a transparent one. – Kevin Montrose Jul 12 '10 at 00:11

systempuntoout · Answer 2 · 2010-07-09T14:52:14.537

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I hope this request will be onored as soon as possible, please.
Sites number to support is growing fast and this flaw does not allow us to use StackAuth sites method without breaking our layout.

edited Jul 09 '10 at 14:52

answered Jul 09 '10 at 14:47

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Make site icons have transparent backgrounds

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