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Pixel perfect is good enough

Matthias, not sure what sub-pixels you refer to, but it’s great to see pixel-grid snapping love. Also worth noting is proper rounded corners. The last thing that’s subpar are the blown up tango icons. Perhaps Moblin-like stencils would be better for the images on the OSD panels.

And please enable comments on your blog :)

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4 Responses to “Pixel perfect is good enough”

  1. Hylke Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    Agree. Also, the centered icon looks weird. Think of the icon and bar being a group and center that instead. :)

    Good to see time is spent on the little details in Fedora.

  2. Jones Lee Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    I just really dont understand why the gnome-icon-theme one-canvas would not ship the svg set in favor for fixed pixel 256×256 set. Would this reflect the new way GNOME designers think about the resolution independent trend?

  3. ethana2 Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    I do wish planet gnome/ubuntu/kde syndication required open comments enabled.

  4. Jakub Steiner Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    Jones Lee: While it’s completely off-topic —
    a) RSVG not capable to render all features of those icons
    b) It takes seconds to render a highly detailed icon with filters.

    So the question is more like — Why don’t we render them at OSX’ ridiculous 1024×1024? The answer right now is simply because the theme would become gigantic without an actual need for that resolution. The SVGs are perfectly fine to render those in future though.

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