2007/12/28, Jose Hevia <jose.francisco.hevia@...400...>:
Agree: -There is a lot of work in the current system. It can be used for other projects. -Make it easy to make GTK icons from inkscape(for artists, not developers).
Here I'm referring to "using a single SVG document to store dozens of icons technology".
This code is very useful for the GTK-gnome-kde world. Currently it needs to load hundreds of little files, this is a big efficiency killer(hard disk scattered little files).
In the other hand, more vector icons in desktop is the future, as screens get more resolution and aliasing is less of a problem. If this technology could be included in gnome-kde, then Inkscape can reduce it complexity.
Put this in a library, and let other projects use it(scribus,evince,kpdf...)
Look at how complex it is the current system, every app has its own: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Missing+Icons+KPdf
Compare that with replacing each icon from a template SVG.