Re: [jokosher-devel] SVG vs. PNG loading on startup

["Jono Bacon" <jonobacon gmail com>]

On 8/29/06, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk gmail com> wrote:
> I don't think that startup time is so much very important for
> multitrack editor,  if it is compared to benefits of SVG. Also it
> would be good not to cache all instrument icons at once, but mostly
> used. But it is of course MHO.

I think if we can aqueeze all and any performance out of Jokosher, we
should. From what I can tell, we only need a few fixed sizes of png
files anyway, so it could make perfect sense. Icons are used in the
following places:

* Instrument headers
* Mixing view headers
* Minimised instruments in mixing view
* Effects dialog

With these in mind, I would guess that we have two icon sizes - big and small.

Mind you, before we commit, a few things to think about:

* I think it would be worthwhile to have a discussion about shrinking
the height of instrument lanes in the recording view. The size of the
tracks is still a  little large and only a limit number of tracks can
appear on the screen.
* Is having hard-sized png's going to be worth the additional work in
exchange for the performance gain? Personally, I suspect it will. :)

 Jono