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#1 2014-08-10 09:35:26
- halogen
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SVG icons -> slower system?
Back when I was still using Gnome a couple of years ago, I was advised against using SVG icon themes as rendering vector graphics would slow down the desktop, and was told to prefer a raster (PNG) format instead.
I was wondering if this still the case? (with KDE particularly)
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#2 2014-08-10 13:06:33
- kokoko3k
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Re: SVG icons -> slower system?
I think it is a matter of cpu vs hd access speed, yout mileage may vary, but i am confident that svg icons would get rasterized and kept in cache in bitmap format, so probably in the end it will not change that much.
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#3 2014-08-10 15:05:06
- halogen
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Re: SVG icons -> slower system?
Ah, thanks. I prefer vector format as it's more resolution-independent. So from what I gather I should simply check if filesize of icon-cache.kcache has increased (maybe after rebuilding it with kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental)
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#4 2014-08-10 17:33:00
- emeres
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Re: SVG icons -> slower system?
You could always go through the svgs with convert from imagemagick yourself, set your preferable resolution[s_] and image options and put the linked icons in a tmpfs in your ram.
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