[Sugar-devel] SVG performance

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Ivan Krstić
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
>> not a bad idea until we sort out this rendering issue.
>
>
> It's actually the right idea, period. Except where prohibited by space
> constraints, unchanging vector graphics should only be rendered into
> bitmaps once, and reused in that form until an environmental
> dependency (e.g. current screen resolution) changes.

That's more or less the approach Benjamin icon cache takes, except for
the complications coloured icons introduces. It sounds like we should
make it available to activities.

Marco