Qt SVG renderer

[pinheiro]

A Tuesday 29 July 2008 08:38:20, Thiago Macieira escreveu:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 09:32:01 pinheiro wrote:
> > A Tuesday 29 July 2008 07:57:29, Thiago Macieira escreveu:
> > > Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >I have 2 things to say, 1 of them is news, the other is fairly known.
> > > >
> > > >Riccardo rocks. He has created an amazing list of icons that are
> > > > misdrawn with Qt SVG renderer. Mostly the main problem that
> > > > invalidates Qt SVG renderer for actually being used on KIconLoader is
> > > > that it doesn't support filters/masking. Now that the known thing,
> > > > that Riccardo rocks is said, I proceed with linking to his work (I am
> > > > hosting it, since I uploaded the list).
> > > >
> > > >http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/07/icons/
> > > >
> > > >Here you can find a full list of icons that are misdrawn, and how
> > > > inkscape draws it.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks Riccardo !
> > >
> > > I see a few blatant errors in some errors that look like the icon was
> > > drawn on top of others. If those are Qt errors, those should be easy to
> > > fix. But please check that it isn't the generating program's fault.
> > >
> > > Or am I misunderstanding the issue? Are those backgrounds in the .svg
> > > file and then somehow filtered into oblivion? I.e. in
> > > http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/07/icons/qt/audio-headset.png, that SD
> > > card is in the audio-headset.svg icon?
> > >
> > > Also, I don't see the differences in *most* icons, unless I put them on
> > > top of the other and flip.
> >
> > To me its fairly obvius the difrences... and its in most of them, the
> > only ones that are almost ok are the realy old ones that in fact areout
> > of style. :(
>
> I guess it depends on the quality of your screen too. Looking now at the
> icons with a larger screen in the office, with good contrast, as opposed to
> my laptop's small screen in a sunny morning, I can see more differences.
>
> In any case, fixing the blatant errors would make the icons at least
> usable. There are still a few that look broken without the filters, like
> krdc.png, but it wouldn't be a showstopper. We could start using our icons
> while the missing features in the renderer are implemented.

That would be a great improvment yeah ...

I personaly, and after a few years of doing incons don't belive in the 
scalabity of svg for icons, never the less qsvg is realy important has svg is 
geting some momemtum, (I get some clients asking me for that format now)
and I see great potential for svg in the desktop and the web...
Plasma is a great example, simple fast svg's can provide execlent results.
Just that icons are geting very complex and rendering can take some time, and 
scaling them dosent produce the results expected....



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