[Libreoffice-ux-advise] 256x256 application icons ...

Jakub Steiner jimmac at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 03:42:00 PDT 2011


Hi MIchael,
Yes, indeed the 'crazy' size has always been 256x256. I wouldn't be
installing SVGs though as you need quite a bit of detail, usually use a few
filters and generally will require a lot of CPU time to render. I would bet
my money on PNG.

cheers

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at suse.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
>        It seems that the GNOME guys really prefer a 256x256 icon size and
> we
> currently only ship a set of 128x128 icons, which makes us look less
> pretty than we should be (any chance of a screenshot Vincent?)
>
>        My personal feeling is that at 256x256 just installing the svg icon
> would be rather preferable, to allow future scaling. Do we have
> easy-to-grok collect, split svgs of each of the icons ? Jimmac - the
> rumour is that you prefer raw pixel 256x256 icons - is that really so ?
> is each of the 65k pixels hand-tweaked at that resolution ? :-)
>
>        Anyhow - thoughts much appreciated,
>
>        Thanks,
>
>                Michael.
>
> --
> michael.meeks at suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
>


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Jakub Steiner <jimmac at gmail.com>
http://jimmac.musichall.cz
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