Box Icon Theme

[Aere Greenway]

On 12/18/2013 07:31 PM, Israel wrote:
> On 12/18/2013 07:54 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> On 12/18/2013 03:26 PM, Israel wrote:
>>> Yeah I really like SVG graphics....  I looked into the Lubuntu icons
>>> folder and saw that they are all svg files, so apparently LXDE does
>>> indeed support svg.  SVG has a lot of other great uses, like the web,
>>> and integrating JavaScript directly into the SVG.  If you like SVG
>>> art, you should check out OpenClipArt.org
>>> It might be worth submitting the icon set (once it is finished) to
>>> Open Clip Art as long as it can be released as public domain.
>>> I also might submit a Template, though I think it would be more
>>> appropriate if Rafael submitted it, since he is the resident artist :)
>> Israel:
>>
>> Java (a different language from JavaScript) cannot directly support
>> '.svg' graphics.  The '.jpg' and '.png' work fine.  This is true for
>> Java's Swing (and AWT) GUI.  I don't know if the same is true for Spring.
>>
> I didn't know that about Java, that seems really unfortunate as SVG's
> are great (they are vector based so the do not become pixelated).  I am
> not sure exactly what you are saying by your e-mail, though...  Are you
> saying the box icon theme should also have png files, or are you saying
> that for web use it is not possible to use it with Java.  I don't use
> Java (yet), I use JavaScript, which can be coded directly into SVG
> files, and can be used to manipulate the SVG, and whatever else...  I
> have only experimented a little with the capabilities, but since SVG is
> in XML format, all JavaScript should theoretically be possible (even
> calling an external script), though I have not tried this yet, though
> maybe others on this list have and know whether it is possible or not.
>
Israel:

I was merely pointing out something surprising that I learned.

In attempting to display icons in a Java Swing application of installed 
components, though most of the component had '.png' icons, some of them 
had '.svg' icons.  The '.svg' icons could not be displayed by the 
application, but the '.png' icons were displayed properly.  Fortunately, 
most of the icons were '.png'.

In spite of the virtues of '.svg' icons you were pointing out, like with 
so many things, there is a down-side, and the down-side here is 
something few of you would likely be aware of.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere