Re: Including scalable icons to improve size coverage

[Luya Tshimbalanga <luya_tfz thefinalzone com>]

Quoting Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>:

> Today I looked at shipping svgs with echo-icon-theme to improve the
> coverage and avoid size gaps where we don't have hand-tuned small sizes
> yet.
>

Great. That should reduce some tasks until these svgs icons have their own png
small size. I am also considering some of them (especially the 24x24 who are
identical to their larger formats).


> Unfortunately, doing this blows up the size of the tarball to 70M (after
> bzipping !). Looking at some of the large (>500k) icons, I notice a
> couple of things:
>
> a) they seem to mostly be created with Illustrator
>
> b) they include a jpeg thumbnail
>

Surprising. Maybe converting them using Gimp should do the trick.

> c) they include a huge binary chunk called
>    <i:pgf id="adobe_illustrator_pgf">
>
Which explains longer loading page.




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