One intention for Hardy, at least from what I read before (correct me if it's changed) was to use SVGs for everything, so I'm guessing things are changing over bit by bit. Many of the apps have a png and an svg version available though. <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 9, 2008 10:36 AM, Ioannis Nousias <<a href="mailto:s0238762@sms.ed.ac.uk">s0238762@sms.ed.ac.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm sure this has been asked before. Most of the system application launchers use PNG icons. For example, Firefox and Thunderbird (two of the most commonly used apps). Very few use SVG, like gnome-terminal. I like to have few icons on my desktops that are stretch to ~x2 their size. PNGs look aliased when stretched. Another case where the fixed resolution of PNGs gets in the way, is in things like cairo-dock, where the application's icon in 'window list' looks aliased. The obvious question is, why use PNGs and not SVG for all icons? Performance? Also, is that theme related ? I use the 'human' theme. regards, Ioannis PS: I've modified 'firefox.desktop' in '/usr/share/applications', just to make sure that the default uses SVG. This works well for my desktop icons, however, things like cairo-dock keep displaying a PNG icon of the running firefox app. Is there something else I need to change, or is this Cairo-Dock's fault ? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 <a href="http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com">http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com</a> <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo