<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hi Pat<div><br></div><div>I'd really like to collaborate with you on optimizing the icon /artwork.</div><div>I'm the author of 'pngslim', and have a few custom scripts for icons...</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps we could have a chat on IRC, to see how best to work together?</div><div><br></div><div>Beyond lossless optimization of the icons, there are bigger tasks I want to tackle. These include:</div><div>- Agreeing standard icon theme naming and reducing duplicate icons (see an old audit I started: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ea2aced/OOo/OOoIconCat.odt )</div><div>- Looking at whole packaging concept, so we only ship one core theme and other themes are available as extensions.</div><div>- Usage profiling for quicker startup times.</div><div>- Hacking the code to treat HC as a  separate theme (big wins to be had there!).</div><div>- List of other tasks here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AktmVHYOt-kzcmpnbFE0Rmx2c1lLVTVwaUtDR2t3S0E&hl=en_GB</div><div><br></div><div>Look forward to working with you and hope we can chat soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>> Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] Image Compression Patch<br>> From: kendy@suse.cz<br>> To: pat@pathawks.com; ace_dent@hotmail.com<br>> CC: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org<br>> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:30:38 +0200<br>> <br>> Hi Pat,<br>> <br>> On 2010-10-11 at 10:20 -0500, Pat Hawks wrote:<br>> <br>> > I've applied some lossless compression to the PNGs in the package to<br>> > reduce the size of the files a bit, some by as much as 50% <br>> ><br>> > In the grand scheme of things I know it's not life or death, but every<br>> > little bit helps, right?<br>> > <br>> > This is contributed under the LGPLv3+<br>> <br>> When you send your script you used for the better compression of the<br>> icons, please CC: Andrew too - he has previously done lots of good work<br>> on recompressing the images, and has just recently got in touch with us<br>> again. Would be great if you both can share experience :-)<br>> <br>> Thank you a lot,<br>> Kendy<br>> <br>> <br></div> </body> </html>