Re: [E-devel] Edje image lists

[Tom H. <tom...@gm...>]

On 13 April 2010 10:58, Christopher Michael <cpm...@co...> wrote:
> On 04/12/2010 10:17 PM, Tom Haste wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Ive had discussions with raster and Manowarrior in IRC about icons and
>> their sizing. We all agree that with edje we have the power to step
>> into a new age of icon size and corresponding image selection.
>> Typically we have 1 icon for a specific task and then call it a day.
>> This becomes a very tough situation when the FDO icon naming spec
>> doesnt have any specifications in regards to size, and to introduce
>> that to the spec would be yet another horror to the nightmare that is
>> the icon naming spec. We also come across issues when using the scale
>> option, where small icons are magnified to a size they no longer look
>> good at, or shrunk so that a high detailed icon looks like a tiny
>> blurry smudge.
>>
>> This can already be done with Embryo, by reading the object area size
>> and using an image based upon it. However it would be better to have
>> this done at a lower level in edje.
>>
>> As a rough (and most likely flawed idea) something a long these lines
>> might work...
>>
>> imagelist {
>>     name: "Something";
>>     image: "something-16.png" 8 16 COMP;
>>     image: "something-48.png" 16 48 COMP;
>>     image: "something-128.png" 48 128 COMP;
>> }
>>
> The only issue I can see here is, how to know which one to use...ie:
> First image says min 8 max 16, but second image says min 16 also ... so
> which gets used ?
>
> dh
>

This then..
    image: "something-16.png" 8 16 COMP;
    image: "something-48.png" 17 48 COMP;

like I said though, there are obvious flaw in this :)

It would also be better to integrate these ideas into the images {}
section as it is, rather than making some new sort of architecture.

Toma.



>>
>> Where there is an icon name specified, then a list of images to use
>> based on the objects minimum and maximum size. Perhaps even make it
>> not resize past a limit... for instance, the last example wouldnt get
>> scaled higher than 128px, and the first example wouldnt scale down
>> past 8px.
>>
>> Anyway, this is all just food for thought!
>> Toma.
>>
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