Review Request 126740: Add a script for optimizing svgs

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

> On Jan. 14, 2016, 11:27 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > does the svg stuff still workk?
> > this script goes well together the others i have (only in plasma-framework atm) to remove the hardcoded colors inkscape likes to put even when an element is using the stylesheet and the one to replace hardcoded colors with classes of the stylesheet.
> > 
> > 
> > as for compressing: i was actually thinking of uncompressing the svgs in plasma-framework :p (mainly because git)
> > 
> > what needs to happen is probably the compression to svgz to be done at build time and have all simple svgs in the repository
> 
> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     What do you mean with "because git"? Because we might have the exact same problem with svgo then.
> 
> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     I'm doing an educated guess here: Marco wants readable diffs to icons, so it's easier to spot if the coloring / stylesheets are still correct.
> 
> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     If so, optmized svgs wouldn't work either, because they are squeezed in one line.
>     
>     Maybe it would be better to use different tooling to see the differences on those cases?

Regarding gzip, which I understand it's a bit out of topic, I did the research too:

```
$ cat ~/frameworks/plasma-framework/.gitattributes 
*.svgz diff=gzip
$ cat .gitconfig
#.......
[diff "gzip"]
    textconv = gunzip -S .svgz -c
```

This lets you compare svgz files in git diff/show.


- Aleix


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On Jan. 14, 2016, 4 a.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 14, 2016, 4 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Plasma.
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> Repository: breeze-icons
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> Description
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> Dirk's review (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126738/) gave me the idea that right now we're serving right away the svg's from inkscape and there's room for improvement, potentially.
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> This patch just introduces a script that optimizes the svg's using `svgo`.
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> More could be done, like using gzip files, we can look into that if anyone's interested. In fact, we used to use svgz for the icons, I wonder why that changed. 
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> This will change the files in-place rather than as a build step, which is what I considered first. The process to run svgo on every file was about 30 minutes to 1h on my system, so I doubt it's really desirable.
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> A reduced file size is important because it will greatly reduce disk IO, which is a bottle-neck we have.
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> Diffs
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>   optimize-svg.sh PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126740/diff/
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> Testing
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> ```
> kde-devel at oliver:~/frameworks/breeze-icons (master)$ du -sh icons icons-dark/
> 32M     icons
> 32M     icons-dark/
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> #run the script
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> kde-devel at oliver:~/frameworks/breeze-icons (master)$ du -sh icons icons-dark/
> 17M     icons
> 17M     icons-dark/
> ```
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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