On 19 Aug 2008, at 18:31, Dave Miner wrote: > Calum Benson wrote: >> On 15 Aug 2008, at 16:01, Dave Miner wrote: >>> I took a look at Ubuntu. For Human, they ship up to 48x48 but >>> also have an svg set. >> Yeah, maybe we'll do that one day. The trouble with SVG icons is >> they can look a bit stylised and "plasticky" at large sizes, and >> at small sizes they can mush up so much that you're better off >> with hand- generated PNG versions anyway. So they're certainly not >> a panacea. > > Sure, but we might need to make that tradeoff at some point for the > CD.
Yep. (Another issue is that the Nimbus icons probably don't currently exist in SVG format anywhere... I suspect they're designed in Adobe Illustrator. Fortunately I think that still has SVG export capabilities...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
