[Nautilus-list] OT was: SVG icons

[Chris Heywood <psych primus com au>]

hey, completely off topic, but I was wondering if someone could tell me
what GTK theme you're using there?  I searched through the entire
gtk.themes.org, and looked through the ximian packages and couldn't find
it.

you're work looks awesome, I is all this stuff (GNOME CC etc) planning
on making it out of Ximian?

thanks in advance,
chris heywood

(and what sawfish theme's that?)

On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 01:07, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> I forgot to cc: this discussion to the nautilus list, since that's the
> way to get this thing implemented ;)
> 
> Using SVG for icons has TREMENDOUS potential (automatically
> generated/modified icons, using icons as a regular display output etc).
> Apart from the speed issues mentioned in the attached mail, I am having
> following difficulties with SVG implementation in nautilus.
> 
>         * <text/> does not render
>         * relative dimensions for specifying the text area for
>           previewing text files (I'm confused with the bahaviour for svg
>           icons right now - what size should I match against?)
>         * combination of bitmap/svg icons (having i-regular-48.png and
>           i-regular-96.svg doesn't seem to work)...
> 
> I am amazed by the quality of the SVG render output. This is probably a
> libart thing, but I'm very thankful for implementing this in nautilus.
> Very very cool feature. One wishlist-feature would be to have only an
> outline object when scaling the icon, but that's probably not a simple
> hack.
> 
> God bless all the cool nautilus hackers. You guys rock.
> 
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/gorilla4.png (just a peek on how
> sexy SVG can be)
> 
> Jakub 
> -- 
> -[ jimmac ximian com ]-[ http://jimmac.musichall.cz ]-
> 
> "even a stopped clock gives a right time twice a day"
> ----
> 

> From: Jakub Steiner <jimmac ximian com>
> To: Joakim Ziegler <joakim ximian com>
> Cc: Plum Age (gfx) <plumage ximian com>
> Subject: Re: [Ximian Plumage] status report
> Date: 24 Sep 2001 16:55:00 +0200
> 
> On Po, 2001-09-24 at 15:30, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
> 
> > I agree. I was very excited about them when I first heard Nautilus would
> > have them. However, I'm wondering how speed is when using a lot of them
> > (and a lot of different ones). My gut feeling says it'll be slower than
> > pixmaps, especially if the geometry is complex.
> 
> You are right unfortunately. This does not have to stay that way.
> Nautilus should (and to some extend it does, but it's broken from my end
> user view ;) keep the bitmap rendering of the icon in buffer, so it
> feels like a regular bitmap icon. My idea is it should:
> 
>         * load the theme and render the default zoom interpretations
>           (maybe one size lower and one higher for fater zoom views)
>         * render only pixmaps from the buffer. it should perhaps check
>           the state of the icon in ~/themes/, dunno.
> 
> That way the load time would be slower. It might be wise to render only
> the basic set of icons, ie, not care about the MIME-type stuff and
> render those once it's needed, but definitely keep the buffer. I'm not
> sure how much memory would be wated like this, but it would even make
> sense to save to disk, and load later, instead or rendering.
> 
> jakub
> -- 
> -[ jimmac ximian com ]-[ http://jimmac.musichall.cz ]-
> 
> "even a stopped clock gives a right time twice a day"