Hi ,
This Thursday I pulled the git master and noticed that all the icons sif
files are resized into 128x128px to make them sharper in the UI. I think
that is my fault I didn't explain the reason why i resize all icons' source
(sif files) into 24 px before I submitted the patches.
1) One of the reasons, and the main one, is that if we, as icon designers,
draw a icon which finally will be used in 24x24 size in a 128x128px canvas,
it will be painful to control the result (png file in this case). And also,
in the guideline of tango icon theme, the different sizes icon pngs for a
icon can not be rendered for the same vector design, for example, to get a
good contrast in tiny size, details should be reduced and a 1pix line will
be applied. If we draw a 24x24 px icon on 128x128px canvas, it is hard to do
it, we need to guess the width of contrast line. And it is hard to make all
icon have the same size in looking, take a look at the previous tool icons
on toolbox, they were showing different sizes in looking. And this is the
reason why I reviewed all the sif files and united their canvas, and
retouched some of them accordingly.
2) During testing my icons, I also noticed that Synfig Studio has different
behave of handling png icons compare to GIMP, for example, I copy a gimp
icon (22x22px), to Synfig Studio, I found that the icon in Gimp is really
sharp, but in Synfig Studio it is just blurred. I not sure it dues to gtkmm
or synfig studio.
3) there is another issue for Synfig Studio. It seems that it has some
issues while handling/rendering sif to a small size png. for example, we can
render the metadata panel icon in git, if the target size is 24x24, the top
of the icon will be blurred, but if the target size is 128x128, every thing
is just fine.
2010/10/15 Carlos Lopez Gonzalez <carloslopezgonza...@yahoo.es>
> Any suggestion to make it sharper and smaller? Remember that each gnome/KDE
> theme can resize the icon to a different size depending on the theme.
> -G
>
So my proposal here is that we can make sif file in the final result size,
24x24px in the case, and before we find out a solution for 2) and 3), we can
touch Makefile.am to force them to render in 64x64px, I tested 64x64 is good
enough for most case, I cann't see we need 128x128px icons for Synfig Studio
currently.
--
Yu
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