Re: Ditch SVGs! (was Re: svg icons again)

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

On Jan 28, 2008 4:23 AM, Jakub Steiner <jimmac gmail com> wrote:

> All this made me think we don't really need to use the SVG at runtime.
> It's super useful to have the source artwork in vectors, but the
> advantage of actually using the SVG at runtime is minimal if any.

I'm all for this.

>
> My proposal is to render scalable/ into 48x48, set it to Type=Fixed or
> Threshold (although I wish GNOME followed the spec in that area) and
> add the 256x256 size being bitmaps, yet Type=Scalable. The source svg
> artwork would not get installed/packaged.

Interesting idea, although 256x256 is largeish.

In what regards is gnome not following the spec wrt to Fixed/Threshold ?