From kde-core-devel  Wed May 09 19:39:27 2001
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 19:39:27 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: i18n of icons
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98946267726649

#if Torsten Rahn

> putting multiple pixmaps of the same icon which only differ in 
> dimension (and maybe i18n as well) into one file might be quite a good idea 
> performance-wise. On the other hand it would probably need a 
> new icon-format to be generated. One reason to stay 
> with pngs is that they are very common and that it is very 
> easy to change icons the current way it works 
> (which is important in OS-projects IMHO).

There's no reason that icons couldn't be left in CVS as they are and
'packaged up' when installed. I don't know why that's desirable though.

If KIconLoader needs to look for two icons, does it really take that
much longer than looking for one icon ? Doesn't the kernel cache
directory listings ?

Hmm, shared pixmap server sounds good to me anyway.

Rik