Re: PNG & SVG App Icons

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Pyne
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 09:03:11 Andrew Mason wrote: > > There may be an answer to the question of how to programmatically render > > icons that are both attractive and useful across a wide range of sizes, > > but > > SVG isn't it. > > Out of curiosity what are the issues with regards to SVG? Fo

Re: PNG & SVG App Icons

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Pyne
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 09:03:11 Andrew Mason wrote: > > There may be an answer to the question of how to programmatically render > > icons that are both attractive and useful across a wide range of sizes, > > but > > SVG isn't it. > > Out of curiosity what are the issues with regards to SVG? He

Re: PNG & SVG App Icons

2012-05-28 Thread Andrew Mason
> > There may be an answer to the question of how to programmatically render > icons that are both attractive and useful across a wide range of sizes, but > SVG isn't it. Out of curiosity what are the issues with regards to SVG? Kind regards Andrew >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: PNG & SVG App Icons

2012-05-28 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 28 May 2012 06:56:20 PM Michael Pyne wrote: > Of course, it may certainly be the case for a given app that no special > icons are needed and that the PNG icons are simply dumped directly from > SVG. It should be fine to get rid of PNG icons in that case Pretty much the case for me, I'll

Re: PNG & SVG App Icons

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Pyne
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 08:31:01 Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > Do we still need PNG application icons? I have a app with the usual: > hi-app-.png for 49,32 & 16 pixel sizes, all generated from > a SVG icon. > > Can we just do away with the png icons now and use just one SVG icon? The short answer