KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/icons

[Rafael Fernández López]

> I have serius doubts it will ever be beter, the trend as the renderes get
> beter and beter is that the artists make more and more complex images couse
> they can :)
> Also the size factor is important vector images are geting big very big,
> png's are so much more smaler.

If the renderer is good enough, it shouldn't be any problem. If you want a 
500x500 icon for whatever reason (for example a splashscreen), you cannot 
resize a 128x128 or 256x256 icon. If you want a non standard size icon, 
resizing it is a very very old technique. We can avoid that today (well, not 
today, as _today_, but as nowadays).

Resizing leads to detail loss (upscaling or downscaling, doesn't matter, 
though the latter is far better than the former).

I completely agree on loading PNG's files if we are asking for a standard size 
(this is the normal stuff, almost every calls to KIconLoader want a standard 
size icon), but not for non standard sizes for the exposed reasons. Exactly 
for that reason we have SVG renderers.


Bye,
Rafael Fernández López.
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