Is it possible to have these extra icons and stuff application installable package ???
Br, Devesh > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ext > Florian Boor > Sent: 26 October, 2005 20:32 > To: Komulainen Tommi (Nokia-M/Helsinki) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] gtk+ builtin stock icons removed > > > Hello, > > Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > This message was brought to you by the performance police. > The builtin > > stock icons compiled in the gtk+ library are causing extra > >30k dynamic > > memory consumption regardless of whether they're ever used. > In 770 all > > icons are coming from the icon theme anyway, so this is a cheap and > > simple optimization to do. And everyone loves to have better > > performance, right? :) > > i don't think 30k is worth making it a major pain maintaining > applications which > support both plain GTK and Hildon UI. But that's my personal opinion. > In addition to this you loose a pile of convenient functions > to deal with the > stock icons. UI guidelines (e.g. the Gnome HIG) suggest to > use a set of well > known symbols for common operations which is a really good > idea if you want > users to feel familiar with their applications - another > important feature you > will loose with this. > > My suggestion: Forget about this as long as you don't offer a > similar feature to > replace the builtin stock icons. It might be a good idea to > modify GTK in a way > that only the the stock icons used by an application are kept > in memory instead > of compiling them into the library. > Additionally it might be a good idea to replace the builtin > icons with maemo > style icons... currently some of them look pretty good (like > the arrows, useful > to replace the broken GtkArrows in the default theme), but > some look very different. > > Greetings > > Florian > > -- > The dream of yesterday Florian Boor > is the hope of today Tel: 0271-771091-14 > and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: 0271-771091-19 > [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 6C 44 30 4C 43 20 6B 61 16 07 0F AA E6 97 70 A8 > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
