On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 08:54:33AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Hi Enrico, > > On 16/02/2015 15:21, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >The attached patch let LyX use svg icons (if they exist) in preference > >to png ones. The svg icons automatically scale to the wanted dimension > >and the patch introduces 2 more resolutions (huge and giant icons) that > >should be useful to people with hires displays. > > > >Some svg icons were already added by Jürgen to the lib/images/svg subdir. > >However, they are not seen there and should be copied in the normal places. > >To this end, I also attach a shell script that symlinks them properly. > >The script works like a toggle, i.e., the first time it is launched > >the symlinks are created. When it launched a second time, the symlinks > >are removed. > > > >If no svg icons exist, LyX will use pngs, as usual. In my testing, > >it turns out that some svgs are problematic and give warnings on > >the console while they are loaded. Apart from that, everything seems > >to work for me, but you never know, so I am asking for comments before > >committing. > > One general comment from my old souvenirs: > > Qt supports SVG tiny standard and, IIRC, there were talk to > deprecate that support in some 5.X version.
But it will not be removed http://blog.qt.io/blog/2011/05/12/qt-modules-maturity-level-the-list/#comment-12784 > At some point in the past, we did mostly the same thing as your > patch (not sure if this was André, Peter or me); we also had all > icons embedded in resource for faster loading and easier > distribution. IIRC there were some valid arguments that got this > patch rejected at the end so you might want to look at the > archives. Sorry, neither I remember nor can find it in the archives. > But I like your patch ;-) Thanks. -- Enrico
