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you can try...

by anonymous on: Apr 17 2002

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...sketch for exporting to svg (really primitive ones) or star office (open office) stardraw which have quite usable export to svg too :)

you can try...

by anonymous on: Apr 17 2002

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...sketch for exporting to svg (really primitive ones) or star office (open office) stardraw which have quite usable export to svg too :)

Koooool

by Syllten on: Feb 17 2002

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Now (in the future that is) I will be able to have big Icons.

Hope I could have aautohiding panel with only a Kicker button with size 128*128. Now, that would be kool.. -)

Vertex Based

by loply on: Feb 17 2002

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SVG = Vertex Based?

Wow, that must be insanely usefull for reducing the memory footprint. Excellent idea!

How does the filling work though? Does it support gradients and whatnot?

not really

by Spiral Man on: Feb 18 2002

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i dont see how it will save your actual memory footprint, as the vectors have to be rendered into a bitmap thats the same size as it would be if they were just bitmapped graphics. in theory, it should save some hard drive space, and it also means you can have your icons any size you want (also, people who make new icon sets dont have to make an icon of every size, although an image that looks good at 64x64 generally doesnt look so clear at 16x16). theyll most likely load slower than bitmapped icons also...

if i remember correctly, svg was originally designed to be transfered over the web (ie, using svg instead of png/gif/jpeg), so there should be plenty of docs around about how to open/write them, from which you can find out info about gradients, fill, etc..

But...

by loply on: Feb 18 2002

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Hmm, the SVG`s are converted to bitmaps and stored as so in memory?
I presumed they would be stored in some graph/geometrical structures, and rendered as bitmaps as and when neccessary. Obviouslly, even a complex vertex network is a heck of alot smaller than a 32x32 PNG file, and the difference would be even greater when the icons are animated, no?

As for load times, I guess that depends on the exact file sizes of the SVG files and efficiency of the algorithms involved. I dont know much about the format, but I can imagine the icons being very small in file size - 200 bytes max? Compared to the many Mb of PNG data which is loaded (not all at once) in my current KDE environment, those SVG`s would no doubt load quicker.

vectors vs pixmaps

by stilborne on: Feb 19 2002

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well, they need to be pixmaps at some point so you won't see any real memory savings. in fact, they may result in more memory being used since they have to be rendered into pixmaps.

as for speed increases, the png icons tend to be a few K in size. that really isn't enough of a difference from the SVG icons to be noticeable in terms of disk access time. and when you take into consideration that they need to be rendered before shown, the SVG icons will actually be slower.

the real benefit to SVG icons is that they can be scaled to arbitrarily large sizes, which means less work for icon designers (one file, multiple sizes) as well as makes room for the high resolution displays of the future.

mmm

by tinb on: Feb 18 2002

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some application to draw and save in .svg format?

sodipodi...,maybe?

by hutmat on: Feb 18 2002

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http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/

sodipodi...,maybe?

by hutmat on: Feb 18 2002

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http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/

Kontour ?

by julo on: Feb 18 2002

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I'm pretty sure Kontour supports SVG export.

SVG Icons

by hutmat on: Feb 18 2002

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Yep, at least it is in beta stage,
http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml

More SVG GUI tools

by mbier on: Jun 14 2002

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JASC WebDraw http://www.jasc.com/products/webdraw/

Adobe Illustrator http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/

CorelDraw (see Corel's site; URL too long and ugly to post here.)

Michael

crystal in svg

by everaldo on: Feb 19 2002

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some icons of the crystal icontheme I made in vectorial programs
and they are ready in svg

where?

by weda on: Feb 19 2002

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weda

and where can we find it?

Cooool

by hutmat on: Feb 19 2002

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please tell us where can we download those icons?

I don't think...

by uga on: Feb 20 2002

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...this guy wants to share his icons. He's been showing them off, but then he nevery replies when asked about downloading.

kde-artist

by bridgeport on: Feb 20 2002

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I belong to the kde-artist mailing list and everaldo shares his icons all the time. I'm sure he will share with everyone once his theme is complete. If you can't wait join the list.

I'm already...

by uga on: Feb 20 2002

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... registered to kde-devel and I had to unregister from kde-cvs. I just can't follow one list more! :) Those maillists are huge (>200mails/day). That's too much.

I might have a look at the archive of kde-artist maillist though. Thanks.

I forgot...

by uga on: Feb 20 2002

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... to apologize to Everaldo for being so rude. I just didn't know he was contributing to KDE3.

By the way. I use this lines to congratulate the enormous work you have been doing at kde-artists to make our KDE3 desktops look so nice!

Keep on like that.

excuse me

by everaldo on: Feb 22 2002

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hello uga

excuse me for not answering the questions in kdelook
the problem is that I don't speak English

I work as designer in a distribution linux in the brasil
the HEALTHY conectiva and the theme that I am developing are for her
just after we throw here at our country it is that cannot
to dispose for download

my icontheme not yet this ready one

please don't share that file for anybody

Don't worry...

by uga on: Feb 22 2002

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... I can't share the files since I don't have them. I'll have a look at Conectiva when you release that nice version :)

In case you understand Spanish (I don't speak Portuguese):

Tranquilo everaldo, no puedo compartir ese fichero, puesto que no lo tengo. Esperar� a que distribuyan la versi�n de Conectiva para probarlo y tener en mi escritorio los iconos tan buenos que est� creando.

Un saludo

uga