KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/icons

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A Tuesday 16 October 2007 23:08:12, Rafael Fernández López escreveu:
> > 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.
>
so we can use it in programs to make prety icons :)
or to dinamicly change its code providing extra eyecandy :)
> Bye,
> Rafael Fernández López.



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