Re: scaled icons

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/9/06, Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 18:31 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > Il giorno mar, 09/05/2006 alle 10.34 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > only 28 were scaled. If you look at the attached list, you see
> > > > that most of them fall into 2 categories:
> > > >
> > > > - gtk stock icons which are used in buttons, thus are loaded in
> > > >   size 20, but are only available in size 24
> > >
> > > So, could we switch GTK+ to use 16 pixels icons for buttons?
> > >
> > > I'm using this behavior via .gtkrc and it's not so bad.
> > >
> >
> > How about simply adding the missing icons instead ?
> >
> > 20 is already small, and it is not going to get better with increasing
> > screen solutions.
>
> Because it's already bad enough that we have to draw them in 16 and 22
> sizes. Any reason to not make the buttons use 22 or 24 instead, to match
> the toolbar size? It's hard enough drying the icons at these small
> sizes. Having to redraw the icons with 2 square pixels of difference so
> many times is just not worth the time.

You can just scale them down, thats happening at runtime anyway....