Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?
On 15/06/15 17:15, Nick Boyce wrote:
I wonder whether this may have anything to do with the lack of a special-purpose SVG-oriented icon editor.
Inkscape is probably the best Free vector drawing programme going, and
it has an icon preview mode...
At one SVG icon-set page I found :
http://svgicons.sourceforge.net/
the author comments
"All icons in BlueSphere theme are designed using
SVG format. I have used Sodipodi vector-drawing
program,
...and Sodipodi is the ancestor of Inkscape, as it were.
and partially hand-crafted (!!!!!) SVG (XML)
files using KWrite" - (my exclamation marks).
All part of the beauty of the format! Nobody goes to the trouble of
hand-crafting JPEGs, but text-based files allow you do to that.
[As an aside, I'm faintly horrified to find this standard 128px x 128px SVG icon
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygen480-status-dialog-information.svg
occupies a file size of 120Kb ! .... looking at the source recalls the old joke
"XML is like violence - if it doesn't work, use more"]
There's a bit of fat in the XML that could be removed, methinks, and it
gzips down to 16kB [the KDE icons, when they're SVG, seem to be shipped
as .sgvz]. Furthermore, I ran it through Scour
[http://codedread.com/scour/] and got it down to 17kB. Gzipping /that/
got me a file of 4344 bytes!
I wonder what changed people's minds.
The kids don't use desktops any more, it's all about phones and tablets.
alexd
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