[haiku-depot-web] Re: Third party icons
- From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-depot-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 09:11:12 +0100
Hi,
Am 28.10.2016 um 11:17 schrieb Michel Clasquin-Johnson:
OK, I don't think it is realistic to ask the devs to change this policy. They
are committed to the HVIF format and they probably wish all bitmap icons would
just go away and die..
it is not fresh on my memory, but I think this was simply due to
laziness. There is no policy or agenda behind this. It seems reasonable
to me that HaikuDepot should display the bitmap icons as well. In fact,
I (and most other Haiku devs) think that Tracker should gain support for
bitmap icons. There are even cases where vector icons make no sense at
all, like image previews.
4. Haiku's Icon-O-Matic is the ONE app on Haiku that makes me want to put my
fist through the monitor. Several times now I have sat down, printout with
instructions on the desk and Icon-O-Matic on the screen, trying to make
something - ANYTHING AT ALL - show up in the editing area. Vector graphics and
me just don't get along. The few apps with HVIF icons that I have (mostly
stubloaders for Java apps) are converted from SVGs. Sadly, I didn't save
separate HVIF files while I was doing that and searching for the original SVG
is likely to take far too much time.
I take full responsibility for that. For one, IOM is more or less a
direct mapping of the internal structure of the icon format into a UI,
which makes it unintutive enough. But on top of that it has too many
usability pitfalls that result in you having to use it in exactly
certain ways to be productive. It's not impossible, but way too hard.
Sorry about that.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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