On Wednesday 03 September 2014 13:35:00 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 16:50:35 Elias Probst wrote: > > On 09/02/2014 12:48 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 02 September 2014 12:27:11 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > >> On Monday, September 01, 2014 12:59:04 Elias Probst wrote: > > >> > > >> Compressed SVG files are way faster to read (it's faster to decompress > > >> the > > >> data than to read it from disk). Also, the on-disk footprint is lower.. > > >> > > >> Both of these affect the runtime performance of Plasma. > > > > > > which is not an argument against storing them as SVG in the repository. > > > There could be a pre-install task in CMake which compresses them. > > > > Exactly. This might make sense to be placed in ECM to avoid duplication > > of this functionality all over the place. > > > > > I think Elias suggestion makes sense on the git repository level, we > > > just > > > need to first put in place the CMake bits to ensure the installed files > > > are still svgz. > > > > What I forgot to mention in my initial mail: > > This should be only enforced by the git push hook for newly added files, > > so a quick change to an existing file doesn't require one to rename it > > etc. > > I wonder if the compression is simply using zip, or if one would need > inkscape to compress the SVG to SVGZ. In the latter case, we'd have to add > inkscape to our build requirements, which is not something that sounds > desirable to me.
SVGZ is just a gzipped .svg file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Compression Bye -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
