Re: SVG (at least for icons) [Was: Industrial as default theme?]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 11:06, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:14:06 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > I don't think I've seen a simple, one-size-fits-all SVG icon theme. Most
> > of them are quirky or over-stylised, which are fine things if you're
> > making a conscious decision, but not so great for a sensible default
> > theme. Could you point out some SVG icon themes that would be
> > appropriate to choose as the default?
> 
> I thought one problem with SVG icons was that they had problems looking
> good when scaled down. I'm not sure if the icon theming system can deal
> with using hand-tweaked PNGs for say 16x16 icons, but using SVG once the
> icon goes above a particular size, and I'm not sure how good that would
> look anyway.

The icon theme spec does in fact handle that. You can give pixel size
ranges for each directory.

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