[Clipart] Thumbnails in clipart packages

[Bryce Harrington]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, [ISO-8859-1] "Áki G. Karlsson" wrote:
> Could we also have a tar.gz package as well with an install.sh script 
> that installs into {$prefix}/share/clipart if the user is root, 
> otherwise in ~/clipart, and gives prior warning in both cases?
> Then, once this picks up, some good people will hopefully contribute 
> debian packages and rpms and windows installers...

In the previous release I included a Makefile with this functionality in
it.  `make install` copies it to /usr/share.

With Makefile, the user can override the destination directory.  I also
suspect make will be marginally more portable than a bash script.  It
also cooperates well with packagers.

> Thumbnails
> 
> Nautilus thumbnails images, so does gthumb and Windows Explorer as well. 
> With all this thumbnailing going on, isn't it superfluous to include 
> thumbnails in the package?

There are several advantages to keeping the thumbnails in the package:
 
   * Occasionally, such as was proven with the gradients, it is
     beneficial to have a customized thumbnail rather than simply run
     the file through a blind svg->png converter.

   * Not all software will render the SVG correctly, or may lack the
     functionality altogether.  The online SVG browser could be an
     example. 

   * Large SVG files may be unacceptably processor/memory intensive

Bryce