Re: High Quality Icon For GtkWindow

[David Nečas <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 01:09:28PM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> So. In order to carry a 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, and a 32x32 icon, we have:
> ...
> 55k for an icon is stretching it.

That depends on the data I asked about: If programs send 500k over the
wire anyway then 50k for the icon can be fine.  Are such data available?

> We already have a way to load a high-quality icon for an application.
> I don't think punting 96x96 icons across the wire is worthwhile.
> Application matching has a lot of other benefits, so it's worthwhile
> just to create a .desktop file.

Application matching is a serious information locality violation, i.e.
maintenance hell.  As the OP demostrated...

Yeti