[Development] Version-controlling the SVGs of built-in icons

[Mitch Curtis]

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> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Edward Welbourne
> Sent: Friday, 18 June 2021 1:28 PM
> To: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer at qt.io>
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Version-controlling the SVGs of built-in icons
> 
> Volker Hilsheimer (18 June 2021 11:19) wrote:
> > The majority of time spent on QTBUG-38776 is chasing down the various
> > SVGs from which it’s then trivial to generate PNGs in different
> > resolutions.
> 
> The very fact that we're generating PNGs at different resolutions from SVGs,
> when decent support for SVG would make that mostly redundant, says we
> should be fixing our SVG support (and making it efficient enough to make it
> practical to use it).
> 
> 	Eddy, who illustrates geometry essays with hand-written inline SVGs.

I agree with this. If the SVG is not too complex it should be efficient enough to just use them instead since they should only be rendered once at startup.

I think I remember Gunnar saying that Jolla did this for their icons.

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