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

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Hi,

On 18/06/2021 13:28, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> 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.

Just to be The Grumpy One, this is:

1) an immense task given QtSVG is fundamentally unmaintained;

2) possibly an artistic anti-goal, given that artists want

* use of full SVG profile and not just tiny/basic profile (= 
implementation nightmare)

* full control over SVG rendering, something hard to guarantee;

* (related) not to rebuild+run the application after changing a SVG see 
if there's something wrong in Qt's rasterized results;

* control over *lower* resolutions where one typically retouches the 
pre-rasterized results;


3) a performance hit unless a SVG icon cache is put in place. Do we 
already a working, cross-platform one?


My 2 c,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.com
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