RCC for icons - update: Re: Icons installed by apps

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 7 March 2016 at 14:45, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday March 07 2016 12:41:52 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>
> BTW, am I right that using a builtin binary rcc icon set could make you
> lose in terms of memory (RAM) footprint overhead what you gain in terms of
> disk space overhead?
>

Dsk optimization is not the goal, that would be Enlightenment-like
optimization :)
The thing is, as an average Qt dev, if I had to develop and distribute a 5
cpp files-long lib or app, self-contained (not packaged), I wouldn't like
to add 5970 (and counting) icon files to it to just display 3 icons or so.
I would probably copy the  needed icons into a subdir, maybe even rename
them, move around, etc.
Disclaimer: we're not 'average' Qt devs with all consequences but my dream
is that the two extremes can be closer.

I've been doing the copying myself for non-FOSS or non-mainstream FOSS
code. So any improvement like having a single breeze.rcc file is more than
good solution IMHO.
In other words, we're not distributing movies in a form of N jpeg files,
one per frame, we're using dedicated container. So here it is, a dedicated
container for icons.

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