oversized icons in the distro

[Martin Sourada]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:46 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hey, so we are looking at the size of test1 live cd images right now (of
> course, things don't fit). One thing I notice is that some packages ship
> huge svg icons, like the following:
> 
> 203094 /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/gpm-phone-030.svg
> 229993 /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/gpm-phone-000.svg
> 274693 /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/gpm-keyboard-030.svg
> 284391 /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/gpm-phone-060.svg
> 287861 /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/gpm-phone-100.svg
> 
> I wonder if this list has the expertise and knows the tools to reduce
> excess details in svgs like those ?
> 
Try inkscape's vacuum defs (inkscape --vacuum-defs FILE). For example
for gmp-phone-030.svg it crops the size from 198.3 KB to 47.9 KB...

Martin
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