Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 00:44 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
>>>  For example, the 192x192 nimbus icons are 4+ MB all by themselves...
>> Yep, I'd certainly have no issues with splitting out the 96x96 sizes  
>> and upwards.  Icons bigger than 48x48 are rarely needed on most  
>> desktops, but we might want to keep the next size up (72x72) just in  
>> case-- they might be called into play on big hi-res displays.
>>
>> (Even the large print themes don't ship anything bigger than 48x48,  
>> although their design means they do scale up a little better, when  
>> called upon to do so.)
> 
> Okay, so I have some good news and some bad news.  I split
> the icons 96x96 and larger from SUNWgnome-themes into
> SUNWgnome-themes-hires.  That saved 6452k (uncompressed).
> This is the good news.  The bad news is that in GNOME 2.23.x
> SUNWgnome-themes is larger than what's in Dave's cd space
> analysis so the new compressed SUNWgnome-themes is
> 20890914 (compared to 19893669 in Dave's doc).  After
> optimizing it with pngcrush, the compressed size is still
> 19312549, so that's 570k saved but not the megs we were
> hoping to get.  Also, I won't be able to optimize the
> package until pngcrush is pushed through the process
> (ARC, legal, etc...)
> 

That's depressing.  What's the reason for all the growth?

Dave

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