Kees Cook wrote:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:58:27AM -0600, Derek P. Moore wrote:
Does the file really need to be broken up?
I think so, yes.
I think you're going to have to make other plans. :(
I didn't imagine that writing a script to explode icons.svg into its separate files would be that complicated. I mean, Inkscape already does some fashion of this in C using Inkscape's render.
It's not simple. Some of the icons depend on eachother (for their elements or gradients, clones, etc), and the offset/size information comes from the rendered bounding box. That was one of the reasons for merging them into a single file; it's easier to maintain a certain look/feel.
Speaking of icons, have anyone read this higly intresting proposal over at freedesktop?: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-October/005084.html Just as I would like programs like Scribus blend in better with my Gnome desktop, I belive a Kde user would like Inkscape to blend in with the default theme for his/her desktop of choice (without having to rely on internal theming settings as have been proposed on this list). That would be possible if we used these standardlised icon names. But well, that is when the different desktops starts using this standards.
About the look and feel. If the icons were to be broken up i separate files, would it be possible to do some kind of stylesheet, containing gradients, strokes and colors that the icons could share? Might perhaps also reduce the loading time a bit. - Andreas