Is there any advantage of pic vs png vs svg. My guess would be that the first is the fastest, before png and svg being the slowest but the only one that does a proper scaling eg when the device is put in landscape mode?
The pic files are generated, IIRC, by compiling a theme or the entire QtMoko (see QtMoko and/or QtExtended documentation). If you don't want to compile a theme (i.e. the way I work, copying/pasting the right files in the right locations, it seems to be the easy way) then it's difficult to manage pic files (to date, I didn't find a software capable to open them; if there is one please tell me!), so you have to use other format. The scaling does not depend only on the file format, if you have a big image you can scale down it and stretch it as you wish with a proper xml code. The svgs are the only file that are possible to deform without loosing quality but they are the heaviest. So it's better to work with the svgs only to create the final pngs, and using the latters in the theme, with proper dimensions that allow good scaling. If you notice the files in a theme, they are only pngs and pics, positioning and scaling are delegated to the xmls. But there is only one exception (due to a bug I suppose) that requires svg: the pin box buttons.
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