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Ahh the DOS days are long gone I'm afraid... A single 1024x1024 app icon on Mac OS X weighs in at 4MB once it's inflated to raw bitmap data from ICNS / PNG. Thr
by bengotow 11y ago
Ahh the DOS days are long gone I'm afraid... A single 1024x1024 app icon on Mac OS X weighs in at 4MB once it's inflated to raw bitmap data from ICNS / PNG. Throw a couple of those onscreen at once in a list and you're looking at 30MB easy, and that's just in images!
Of course, you could leave out the images, but you could also just keep using DOS if RAM is a concern :-)
- unwind 11y agoAre icons 1024x1024 now?! And I still think 64x64 sounds kind of big for an icon, heh. I really need to get with the times, and get a lawn I guess.
- JonnieCache 11y agoIt's for making them look smooth on high-dpi displays. Those pixels aren't drawn 1:1, obviously.
- clevernickname 11y ago1024 x 1024 * 4 bytes per pixel = 4MB. Ok. There's no software engineering problem there, just bafflement at wanting almost as many pixels as would vertically fill a 1080p screen, for a fucking icon.