On Nov 25, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Ronan Zeegers wrote:

To still talk about the icons size problem, I think it's very easy to

work on one project (icons.svg) to design the icons for Inkscape.

Multiple files or bitmaps export should slow down this process a lot.

When you're talking about "multiImage", you're talking about bitmaps or

different .svg files?

No.

The <multiImage> element allows for multiple alternative representations of something within a *single* svg file.

Thus one could have a single "draw_calligraphic" icon in icons.svg but that single group could have parts that are dependent on the target resolution.

Adding "small", "large", "button" etc. variants more tries to just guess what few sizes an icon author might need. <multiImage> allows an icon author to "hint" an icon on a case-by-case basis.