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by Carlos Licea on Sunday 25/Mar/2007, @20:17

May be this is a dumb question but why are there 7 icons for a mouse?, arent all of them _Scalable_ Vector Graphics?!!

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Re: SVG icons
by Niels van Mourik on Sunday 25/Mar/2007, @20:53

Well, There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Icons are created in different sizes, like 16x16, 32x32 etc. Therefore they commit each icon 7 times =).

And yes, SVG is used, at least, that's where they create there icons in. But they compile them into png's so it wouldn't bloat the user's performance.

Tho Aaron came up with an interesting idea to use SVG images using caching: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/03/efficient-scallable-icons.html

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Re: SVG icons
by JSob on Monday 26/Mar/2007, @01:20

So if SVG is the "source" of the icons, shouldn't they be committed once, then png(s) built at compilation ?

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Re: SVG icons
by superstoned on Monday 26/Mar/2007, @01:57

Many of these icons have to be build using inkscape, afaik that's the problem. There aren't many svg render engines having all the features these artists use...

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Re: SVG icons
by Anon on Monday 26/Mar/2007, @02:40

Small (i.e. 16x16, 24x24 - even 48x48, sometimes) icons often need to be re-touched by hand, as automatic scaling cannot be relied upon to maintain the details, colours etc that the artists deem important.

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Re: SVG icons
by Ryan on Sunday 25/Mar/2007, @20:55

For other toolkits or programs that want an icon. Note the freedesktop.org naming scheme for icons now being finalized in kde.

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Re: SVG icons
by Johann Ollivier Lapeyre on Monday 26/Mar/2007, @01:04

"Note the freedesktop.org naming scheme for icons now being finalized in kde."

Only for KDElibs i fear... :(

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Re: SVG icons
by Pino Toscano on Monday 26/Mar/2007, @05:35

> Only for KDElibs i fear... :(

Only for Oxygen - at the moment - I'd say.
IIRC there are no Oxygen icons outside KDELibs.

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Re: SVG icons
by Johann Ollivier Lapeyre on Monday 26/Mar/2007, @07:29

Some was done (kopete, games), but not included yet (names...). And this is something i wanted to see with you ;)

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