Hello all, Recently I have explored one specific area where we could easily reduce the hard disk footprint of OpenOffice.org. The vast majority of reductions would be passed on to the size of the OOo installer, which makes this all the more attractive (less bandwidth costs, people download OOo quicker and they have a little more hard drive space for all their documents :P).
The area in question is found in a bunch of zip files in OOo's /Basis/share/config folder. These are the toolbar icon sets that are bundled with OOo, and there are 6 of them (galaxy, high contrast, industrial, tango, crystal and classic). I have written a discussion about how OOo could be smarter with these icon sets and save space [1]. In summary, what it comes down to is: 1) Get rid of old icon sets. Industrial and Classic are two good candidates IMO. 2) Run PNGOUT [2] on all icon sets to reduce the size of each PNG file. Small reductions across many files add up substantially. 3) Reduce the duplication of images in each icon set. The high contrast icons also appear to be duplicated in the Galaxy icon set - does anyone know why? 4) Increase/decrease the compression of each icon set depending on the performance impact (i.e., we can reduce compression if it will make OOo load faster, or we can increase it if the extra memory use is inconsequential). #2 alone could save a few megabytes and would require no code modifications whatsoever. At the very, very least we should do this, and it could be done in time for OOo 3.3 (maybe even 3.2.1?) My discussion/proposal is based on what I have been able to gather by myself, so this may not actually be as simple as I believe. That's why a discussion can't just be between one person. I have had some positive responses to this on the UX and Branding list [3] and I'm hoping this email to the dev list will help make this proposal more concrete. I do have a couple of questions as well (I'm not sure who I should ask?): 1) Why do the high contrast icons appear to be duplicated in the Galaxy set AND in the high contrast icon set? 2) What happened to the icon sets between OOo 3.2 and 3.2.1? Their size decreased considerably - was this just the new ODF icons or is some kind of space saving effort underway? Regards, Ivan. ------ [1] http://www.patentpending.co.nz/soapbox/index.php/reducing-the-footprint-of-openoffice-org-toolbar-icons/ [2] http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm [3] http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=branding&by=thread&from=2359419 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
