Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

Denis Washington wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 14:42 +, Ioannis Nousias wrote: > >> ok, I followed your advice and filed a report for gnome-terminal (which >> also exhibits the same issue). >> >> for your records: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/190688 >>

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

Milan wrote: > Every trivial bug that affects so many packages is a pain to solve. You > can still create an unique report on Launchpad, and mark it as affecting > several packages: this is faster to do and allows to see the progress of > the work. But many times, you have to report a bug upstream

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

Ioannis Nousias wrote: > I can see how that works in static/specific icon sizes, but considering > the numerous visual effects we get on our modern distros these days, in > most cases we are dealing with dynamically changing icons. Cairo-dock is > one example, several compiz plugins (like shift-

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

Milan wrote: > SVG icons have to be generated and present in the "scalable" subdirs of > your theme, or of the fallback theme ("hicolor"). Most apps already have > SVG icons, maybe some don't install them. > As for the performance side, several PNG icons are generated, one for > each common size so

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

On Feb 9, 2008 1:53 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 1:27 PM, Milan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To sum up, yes, having SVG icons for every app would be good, and no, it > > does not hurt performance. > > > > Depends on your system. The calculations for SVG tech

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 1:27 PM, Milan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > To sum up, yes, having SVG icons for every app would be good, and > no, it > does not hurt performance. > > > Depends on your system. The calculations for SVG technically

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

On Feb 9, 2008 1:27 PM, Milan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To sum up, yes, having SVG icons for every app would be good, and no, it > does not hurt performance. > Depends on your system. The calculations for SVG technically take more cycles to do than just drawing a raster does. I'm guessing th

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

Ioannis Nousias a écrit : > I'm sure this has been asked before. > > Most of the system application launchers use PNG icons. For example, > Firefox and Thunderbird (two of the most commonly used apps). Very few > use SVG, like gnome-terminal. I like to have few icons on my desktops > that are s

Re: Use SVG icons instead of PNG

One intention for Hardy, at least from what I read before (correct me if it's changed) was to use SVGs for everything, so I'm guessing things are changing over bit by bit. Many of the apps have a png and an svg version available though. On Feb 9, 2008 10:36 AM, Ioannis Nousias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>