You do of course realize that at some point all of that data will be streamed via KNS... And then each Byte will count (read slow connections). As for the files - they are still SVG files, which you can open and edit in Inkscape. As for the layers - those are not important. As a matter of fact, the most Plasma artist use Adobe Illustrator, which makes the files dirty and ugly (internally) and totally unreadable in Inkscape (read no layers, lost variables/gradients/settings/styles all over the place). So I don't see any harm in optimizing the data.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 19, 2007 3:51 PM, Dmitry Suzdalev <<a href="mailto:dimsuzkde@gmail.com">dimsuzkde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:33:08 Mauricio Piacentini wrote:<br>> Loosing the Inkscape/sodipodi entities gives us a 10% gain on disk, but<br>> possibly makes it more difficult for possible contributors to help us,
<br>> right? I mean: we would be then working with two sets of files: one<br>> would be the "official" SVN art, and the other would be the "stripped"<br>> one installed on-disk. Are the savings really worth it? We would be
<br>> losing layer names, for example, and other stuff that could be useful to<br>> reintegrate contributions into the original source files. In my mind,<br>> compressing to svgz results in MUCH greater savings on disk, with no
<br>> side effects on editability. If we are thinking about saving disk space,<br>> then using svgz in all cases is the way to go, not stripping the svg, imo.<br></div>+1<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> Also, the performance will not increase, right? At least not in any
<br>> measurable way, as the bulk of time is spent on rendering the curves,<br>> and blitting to the screen. In other words, it is something we should<br>> consider for 4.1, but I do not see a clear benefit in having this (two
<br>> sets of SVGs), and I see some possible pitfalls. Maybe I am not seeing<br>> the whole picture?<br><br></div>+1<br><br>You have just told what I was having in mind :)<br><br>Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">Dmitry.
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