[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] GTK stock icon theme

[From: Florian Boor]

Hello,

Eero Tamminen wrote:

> We don't use stock icons in Sputnik because:
> - Gtk stock icons sizes are wrong for us

I guess that would be easy to change in GTK. I don't think you will ever intend
to use the original icons, so you'd only need to chage the size and replace the
bitmaps.

> - Stock icons make application startup slower. RC file parsing was by
>   far  taking most time in application startup and stock icon parsing
>   was 1/4 of that although in lines the >500 stock icon declararation
>   were only 10% of the lines in the RC files.

Okay... i didn't want to go that far, the basic idea was just to have correct
Maemo stock icons instead of the default ones to make porting the applications
easier.

> Or were you suggesting that we would support both OSSO icons and Gtk
> icons separately?  This would increase the footprint somewhat...

No... just to replace the GTk stock icons by the icons used by the Maemo theme.

> They would need to be of correct size i.e. the icons would need to be
> created specifically for the device icon sizes.  If icons would be
> resized using bilinear scaling, that is *very* slow for things like
> Control Panel which shows a lot of them.

Yes right... i see, but if you only ship a correct set of icons for GTK default
theme there is no need to do this.

> For later devices, I think the specifications & communication about
> their changes are the major bottleneck, not the actual implementation.
> :-)

:-)

Greetings

Florian

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