On 14/06/15 03:53, Nick Boyce wrote:
On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote:Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are SVG [and have been for some time] so a vector editor would be the order of the day.Wow ... thanks, I had no idea. That change has completely passed me by.
Allow me to row back somewhat: $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l 134 $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l 1090Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant icon format after all. Obviously the number of PNG files on disk is more than SVG because there are renderings for each size:
konqueror/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/64x64/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/32x32/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/google.pngbut eg from akonadi/ braindump/ and calligra/, there is precisely one SVG icon. So it seems things are bit more nuanced than I had thought.
I guess this is all in aid of a more luscious pixel-sharp desktop so it must be a good thing :)
Yes, in a time where there is more diversity of screen resolutions than before, vector graphics make more sense.
Besides Inkscape (which I last used an aeon ago on Windows), do you believe I
could use Karbon ("a vector drawing application ... support for ODG, SVG, PNG,
PDF, WMF) ? That would surely be the KDE way .... I'll try it.
Haven't done any of this for years. Just had a play with Karbon and Inkscape. Karbon is more basic than Inkscape, in particular the View > Icon Preview feature is relevant here.
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