Battery applet and KIcon

Nuno Pinheiro nuno at oxygen-icons.org
Sun Feb 14 23:58:39 CET 2010


On Sunday, 14 de February de 2010 20:58:40 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Sunday 14 February 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On February 14, 2010, you wrote:
> > > On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:59:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > b) since when have we abandoned scalable interfaces? ("nobody uses it
> > > > larger  than 64 pixels, and we will generate a 256px icon";
> > > > seriously?)
> > > 
> > > SVG is *not* scalable.
> > 
> > given that's what the 's' stands for in 'svg', this statement is ironic.
> > (not to mention wrong)
> 
> while the statement is not "technically correct" (and /me is guilty having
> used it several times too :p), it expresses very well the limitations and
> the poor results of rendering "floats into integers" especially with small
> sizes, where the signal to noise ratio (in term of "correct" vs blurry
> pixels) is too low
> 
> if from one hand ditching it totally to use icons is not the best way to go
> (but good solutions are made of trying different alternatives first ;p),
> Riccardo is correct saying a solution and quite generic one is needed

Yes repeat after me "SVG IS NOT SCALABLE" or better svg is scalable but your 
screen pixels are not. :)



> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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