[Bug 188486] Re: New icons bog down audio directory windows in apps

[Luke]

A Fix that worked for me:

The mp3 icon and other audio icons are too big at 73kb-they bog down
Nautilus and especially Audacity "open" and "save" windows.

Here's what I did:

As root, from /usr/share/icons/UbuntuStudio/scalable/mimetypes ,open
each image in gimp and immediately save it as a .png file. These will be
about 2.6Kb. Now open each of these in Inkscape, which cam save a .svg
image which is linked to the .png image it is made from. The linked .svg
files (not true standalone svg images) will each be about 500 bytes in
size. For some reason, inkscape cannot make a standalone image, so do
NOT delete the .png image or the new icon will disappear. Make sure both
the .png and .svg images are world-readable, but only writable by root,
with no execution privilige(744).

Now, all those huge directories full of mp3's open right quick! Just one
caveat-if you make a tarball of the icons, the svg's will be blank as
the paths to the pngs will be wrong when opened anywhere EXCEPT where
they came from-you will not see the svg icons in the tarball until
copied back into /usr/share/icons, which can be disconcerting. You can
move the tarball to another machine and untar it into the right part of
/usr/share/icons, though, and your linked .svg icons then reappear!

The correct BUGFIX is, of course, to use a program that will make normal
svg files instead of these linke files out of a 48x 48 icon, and
presumably these would be about 2 1/2 Kb, being made from the 48X48
version of the icon and not the high-resolution originals. Process would
again be to use GIMP to convert the 72Kb icons to 48x48 .png icons, then
open these in an SVG editor that will make freestanding .svg images,
like the originals but at lower resolution and far smaller file size.

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New icons bog down audio directory windows in apps
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