[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] gtk+ builtin stock icons removed

[From: Devesh.Kothari at nokia.com]

Is it possible to have these extra icons and stuff application installable package ???

Br,
Devesh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org
> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org]On Behalf Of ext 
> Florian Boor
> Sent: 26 October, 2005 20:32
> To: Komulainen Tommi (Nokia-M/Helsinki)
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] gtk+ builtin stock icons removed
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> > This message was brought to you by the performance police. 
> The builtin
> > stock icons compiled in the gtk+ library are causing extra 
> >30k dynamic
> > memory consumption regardless of whether they're ever used. 
> In 770 all
> > icons are coming from the icon theme anyway, so this is a cheap and
> > simple optimization to do. And everyone loves to have better
> > performance, right? :)
> 
> i don't think 30k is worth making it a major pain maintaining 
> applications which
> support both plain GTK and Hildon UI. But that's my personal opinion.
> In addition to this you loose a pile of convenient functions 
> to deal with the
> stock icons. UI guidelines (e.g. the Gnome HIG) suggest to 
> use a set of well
> known symbols for common operations which is a really good 
> idea if you want
> users to feel familiar with their applications - another 
> important feature you
> will loose with this.
> 
> My suggestion: Forget about this as long as you don't offer a 
> similar feature to
> replace the builtin stock icons. It might be a good idea to 
> modify GTK in a way
> that only the the stock icons used by an application are kept 
> in memory instead
> of compiling them into the library.
> Additionally it might be a good idea to replace the builtin 
> icons with maemo
> style icons... currently some of them look pretty good (like 
> the arrows, useful
> to replace the broken GtkArrows in the default theme), but 
> some look very different.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian
> 
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