[Kde-games-devel] Hybrid svg graphics...

[Ian Wadham]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:12 am, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> The other thing I noticed is that Gnome ships a dondorf deck too...
> It is much smaller though, and much faster to load, and it uses pixmaps for
> the court cards.
>
> I think it looks better even when scaled up... though I've heard others
> whose opinion differs. Here is an image demonstrating the two decks...
>
> http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/vector-pixmap.png
>
> The one on the right is the pixmap version, on the left is the svg version.
> At normal screen resolutions, there should be really little difference...
> actually, the pixmap version colors should be more saturated.
>
Well the Queen on the right (pixmap) is prettier, mainly because the reds
on her lips and clothing are bright, but the Queen on the left (SVG) is in
sharper "focus".  So it's six of one and half a dozen of the other and since
there is no dogmatic insistence on SVG for everything, you decide, Luciano.

BTW, I did not know Switzerland had a Royal Family (see the Queens sash in
the right-hand picture) ... :-)

Cheers. Ian W.