Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] How to provide HDPI icons in yourplug-in

["Sravan K Lakkimsetti" <sravankumarl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When I am doing this work. I tried using SVG images instead of PNG images. The estimated footprint increase is about 70MB. whereas a set of @2x images increases the footprint by 4MB.

My approach was to load scaled up images at startup based on the scaling factor and use them through out the platform(as suggested by Stefan). From this we need a capability of reading SVG files and create image objects. When we did the research we found GTK(unix) and Cocoa(Mac) has this capability but not (Windows). On windows we use GDI+ library for graphics and this does not have this capability. We had to build this capability. This is where we had performance issues.


Thanks and Regards,
Sravan

Sravan Kumar Lakkimsetti
IBM India Pvt Ltd,
Embassy Golf Links Business Park, D Block,
Off Indiranagar-Kormangla Inner Ring Road,
Bangalore - 560071, India
Phone: 91-80-41776858

David Williams ---22-09-2016 06:31:31 AM---On 09/21/2016 08:20 PM, Stefan Xenos wrote: > What I proposed would occur once, so it would slow dow

From: David Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxx>
To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22-09-16 06:31 AM
Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] How to provide HDPI icons in yourplug-in
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On 09/21/2016 08:20 PM, Stefan Xenos wrote:
> What I proposed would occur once, so it would slow down *installation* 
> time but not startup time. We could show a message along the lines of 
> "installing icons" to make it clear to the user what's going on.
>
> Or do you have some reason to believe this would have some impact on 
> startup time once the icons are installed?
>

I do not know a definitive answer, but found some hints. At first I was 
thinking something similar and did some googling for "svg png 
performance" and "does OS cache SVG" and a) did not find much about 
icons, per se, but otherwise seemed to be a lot of out-of-date 
information that I think is not always currently true ... most of it 
browser and webpage focused but (that is, low signal to noise ratio) and 
b) also found some bugs in Firefox's system that had titles such as "SVG 
cache must be invalidated if System theme changes". That, and even 
"scaling" seems like the kind of thing that might effect us. At that 
point I decided "this is complicated" and didn't read further. :)
  HTH

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