[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

[Calum Benson]

On 19 Aug 2008, at 18:31, Dave Miner wrote:

> Calum Benson wrote:
>> On 15 Aug 2008, at 16:01, Dave Miner wrote:
>>> I took a look at Ubuntu.  For Human, they ship up to 48x48 but  
>>> also  have an svg set.
>> Yeah, maybe we'll do that one day.  The trouble with SVG icons is  
>> they  can look a bit stylised and "plasticky" at large sizes, and  
>> at small  sizes they can mush up so much that you're better off  
>> with hand- generated PNG versions anyway.  So they're certainly not  
>> a panacea.
>
> Sure, but we might need to make that tradeoff at some point for the  
> CD.

Yep.  (Another issue is that the Nimbus icons probably don't currently  
exist in SVG format anywhere... I suspect they're designed in Adobe  
Illustrator.  Fortunately I think that still has SVG export  
capabilities...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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