bug#2901: 23.0.92; Emacs SVG icon is of bad quality

bug#2901: 23.0.92; Emacs SVG icon is of bad quality

[Ulrich Mueller]

The SVG icon in etc/images/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg
consists entirely (except for the pen) of embedded bitmaps instead of
vectorized paths.

This is against the idea of SVG. It also leads to a ridiculously large
file size, and shows as jagged lines at larger sizes.

Revision 1.1 of the file in CVS was somewhat better (but doesn't pass
SVG validation at http://validator.w3.org/).

Ulrich

bug#2901: marked as done (23.0.92; Emacs SVG icon is of bad quality)

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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Cc: emacs@gentoo.org
Subject: 23.0.92; Emacs SVG icon is of bad quality
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:57:14 +0200
Message-ID: <18905.42954.296330.171438@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de>

The SVG icon in etc/images/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg
consists entirely (except for the pen) of embedded bitmaps instead of
vectorized paths.

This is against the idea of SVG. It also leads to a ridiculously large
file size, and shows as jagged lines at larger sizes.

Revision 1.1 of the file in CVS was somewhat better (but doesn't pass
SVG validation at http://validator.w3.org/).

Ulrich



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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>, 2901-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: 23.0.92; Emacs SVG icon is of bad quality
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:26:33 -0400
Message-ID: <87prfh6ggm.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

I've replaced the bitmaps in emacs.svg and emacs-document.svg with
(hand-rolled) vector graphics.  The file sizes are now 14K and 12K
respectively, and the svg passes the w3c validator.