The svg's that the UI uses are scalable of course.  But the format or pallet size of the svg is very specific.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Eben Eliason <<a href="mailto:eben.eliason@gmail.com">eben.eliason@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">>  >  - Prefer vector graphics over bitmap graphics<br> ><br> >  Often not, as this can be slow.<br> <br> </div>Fair enough; we should certainly be sure we cache the rasterized<br> images when it could have a big impact on performance.  We certainly<br> do this for the pulsing icons used in various locations.<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> >  Also, note that this doesn't actually work. Sugar's<br> >  icons have to be a specific size. With that and the<br> >  two-color restriction, we might as well go back to<br> >  using *.xbm files! It's like the 1980's all over again,<br> >  but incompatible. At least we get similar performance.<br> <br> </div>The two color "restriction" is a core part of the network<br> collaboration identity model, and is only enforced on activity icons.<br> This says nothing about icons used elsewhere in activity interfaces<br> and such.  Also, your comment about scaling is simply inaccurate.<br> SVGs are (by definition, in fact) scalable, and we use that to our<br> advantage all over the UI.  The requirement of the default size<br> ensures that all icons are properly padded for equal visual weight,<br> but has no ultimate effect upon the size the icons get rendered within<br> the UI, which is handled dynamically.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> - Eben<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br> Its.an.education.project mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Its.an.education.project@tema.lo-res.org">Its.an.education.project@tema.lo-res.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project" target="_blank">http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>