[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations
Dave Miner
Dave.Miner at Sun.COM
Fri Aug 15 07:15:33 PDT 2008
Calum Benson wrote:
>
> On 14 Aug 2008, at 16:34, Dave Miner wrote:
>>>
>>
>> I tend to agree with this reasoning, and am not inclined to push for
>> copy-paste engineering in themes anymore than I would anywhere else. I
>> would ask, though, that space considerations be a part of the
>> calculation in constructing the themes and dependency chains. Also, any
>> thoughts about Glynn's suggestion of not shipping so many icon variants?
>> For example, the 192x192 nimbus icons are 4+ MB all by themselves...
>
> Yep, I'd certainly have no issues with splitting out the 96x96 sizes and
> upwards. Icons bigger than 48x48 are rarely needed on most desktops,
> but we might want to keep the next size up (72x72) just in case-- they
> might be called into play on big hi-res displays.
>
How big/hi-res are we talking about to need 72x72? It's a meg, after all.
Dave
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