On 14/10/15 13:07, Michał Sawicz wrote:
I can't say if this is set in stone, or when it's going to happen, but
we're likely to require the icons to be pre-shaped when uploading them
to the store (and/or shape them on upload). They will then look better
on desktop. As for legacy desktop icons, we'll need to have that
discussion sooner rather than later.
I kind of take the view that if we are doing something disruptive, it
should be to achieve something better. The desktop transparent icons fit
on anything, work with any background and look great. If the phone ones
are going to be on a solid roundrect then absolutely they shouldn't be
pre-shaped (because everyone will do them with a different corner radius
and the antialiasing/translucency on the corners will almost certainly
be done wrong most of the time.) Perhaps if new icons were SVG with
tagged layers they could generate raster images at different
resolutions, with and without the background layer. Another image format
that supports layers is OpenRaster,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRaster which could be used to hold an
icon plus a background for it to sit on, which could be conditionally
rendered in different contexts.
Alan
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