[Development] Revisiting high-DPI configuration options

[Konstantin Tokarev]

20.07.2016, 20:12, "Prav" <pr12og2 at programist.ru>:
> Hello, Everyone.
>
>>  That's one reason, but there are two more equally, if not more important:
>>  1) SVG rendering is orders of magnitude slower than PNG. Icon-heavy
>>  applications suffer if they use it.
>
> Why SVG support of QIcon can not cache rendered result? So re-rendering will be as fast as for PNGs.
> Or you are saying about app startup time?
>
> Also there was idea in this thread earlier that SVG rendering can be done much faster ... like in old Opera browser.
> Why Qt company cann't ask Opera to share this part of old Presto engine? They decided to not use Presto
> nowdays so no loses for them.

Is SVG engine of Opera really faster than that of WebKit?

>
>>  2) SVG icons designed for higher resolution, with a lot of details, look
>>  complex and polluted in lower resolutions. From past experience, icon artists
>>  prefer to render the SVG to a lower resolution and retouch them.
>
> This is a problem. But I do not see many such icons in Material-style. They are mostly simple.
> So I would expect modern styled-apps will not have this problem massively.
>
> But for people who really want raster images to be aplied ... may be it is possible to add some method
> to QIcon which will store this specially rastered QPixmap in icon and will render icon with this
> pixmap if icon size is small. But I am sure most apps will be happy with just SVG rendering.
> This is such a detailed work ... not sure that many apps creators will decide this work as a high priority.
>
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Regards,
Konstantin