On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:59 -0600, Archaic wrote: > I've never had a desire to build this, but I'm messing around with the > beta xfce and it has it as an optional dep. The stable xfce does, too, > but I've never used it. From what I can tell, it simply allows xfce to > use svg icons instead of png icons. The images are the same from what I > can tell, though. So my question is, why? Is svg *that* much better or > *that* much faster?
It's different only because it's a vector-graphics format, rather than bitmap. It's not faster, but because it's scalable, it's preferable for dealing with high-resolution displays - a given icon can be displayed as 1cm by 1cm, regardless of whether the screen is 90dpi or 120dpi. Or if preferred, it can be increased in size without looking like a scaled-up bitmap does. Not just icons, of course - Gnome has moved to SVG graphics for most games, so that a minesweeper window, for example, can be scaled up a bit to suit people with poor vision or mouse skills who find it hard to click the right squares. Simon.
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