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Subject:    Re: Proposal: Increasing application icon sizes to 64px
From:       Daniel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vr=E1til?= <dvratil () redhat ! com>
Date:       2014-09-30 9:29:56
Message-ID: 1951908.sh3BPgmqiH () odin
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On Monday 29 of September 2014 12:40:30 Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 29 September 2014 12:23, Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> wrote:
> > Couldn't we just stop this madness of bitmaps?

+10

> 
> SVGs are not a silver bullet.

Well, it's better than bitmaps.

> You'd want a very different source SVG
> file for an icon that's designed to be displayed at 22x22, to an icon
> designed to be displayed at 256x256. 

The point is that even if you have a "small" SVG, you can still scale it up \
to  256x256 without the icon being pixelated - yes, it will have fewer \
details, it  will be obvious that it's not really aimed for the large \
resolution, but I  think that's zillion times better than showing pixelated \
icons.

KDE apps sometimes provide different versions of SVG icons for different \
level  of detail, but the cool thing here is that you only need to provide \
for  example a small version - for 16x16 - 64x64 sizes, and a large version \
for  128x128 and above - no need to maintain 6 bitmaps or so. Also with \
SVGZ  (gzipped SVG) this can save some space.

> Plus, rendering SVGs with
> inkscape and rsvg sometimes output *very* different results...

Well, that's either bug in Inkscape or rsvg. Try Karbon (from the Calligra 
suite) :-)

Dan

> 
> Richard

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