Re: SVG themes in GNOME2.4

[Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>]

I think its an issue of how long it takes to uncompress the png compared
to how long it takes to draw shapes. Depending on how compressed the png
is and how complicated the svg is, either could be faster.

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On 12 May 2003, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 00:29, Daniel Farrell wrote:
> > >> I personally think svg themes are pretty silly. I mean, they just take
> > >> more time to render (leading to bad performance). In the end they all
> > >> end up being pixmaps, just like the png themes. The svgs could as well
> > >> be pre-rendered.
> > >>
> > >> What more is that people doing svg themes seem to have noticed that
> > >> vector formats don't render well at different small sizes, so you often
> > >> have to do several svg versions for different sizes. So you don't even
> > >> get the benefit of only having to do one size of each icon.
> > >
> > > Well, ideally the svg engine people would take a hint from say Truetype
> > > fonts and just add the capability of having certain small / common sizes
> > > be pre-rendered as pixmaps. Other than that, svg engine is to me roughly
> > > in the same class as an engine that called java to have swing paint the
> > > widgets or did the same with ghostscript so you can have Postsript
> > > themes...
> >
> > I've been told that librsvg renders SVG's faster than liblng render's
> > PNG's...  and I haven't noticed SVG themes being any slower than pixmap
> > themes...
>
> I don't know about this. png's don't have to be rendered, so i guess you
> mean decoding the files. That totally depends on how complicated the SVG
> is. I very much doubt that decoding a small PNG is faster than parsing,
> evalutating and rendering a complex SVG file.
>
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