On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 09:47 -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote: > I understand the problem. > The reason we don't already do this, is because programatically > resizing images without making beautifully crafted images ugly is hard > and rarely works. In fact, I've had to fight off the increase of the > default size from 256 to 512 :)
What about automatically running pngcrush on all uploaded PNGs? In some cases, this might reduce the image size quite a bit. Do we support SVG as a format for the icon on the server? An SVG compressed with gzip -9, with the file extension of .svgz should be loadable by Qt already, and should be a very significant reduction in file size of the image. Supporting and encouraging the SVG path is probably something we should do anyway. > I would also suggest following a bit of what's done in websites, where > you do lazy loading of images[1], prioritise what's visible on the > screen and start loading the next ones once that completes, in > batches. The infrastructure may not be available in scopes, but I > would certainly suggest it gets added to a ToDo somewhere :) So, require all the icons to be progressive JPEGs instead? ;) -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : ubuntu-appstore-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
