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They have, no? GNOME/KDE have supported SVG icons for years, the themes are usually vector based. I don't think there are necessarily many bitmaps in a default
by native_samples 5y ago
They have, no? GNOME/KDE have supported SVG icons for years, the themes are usually vector based. I don't think there are necessarily many bitmaps in a default modern GNOME install.
For macOS the reason is simple and deliberate: it's much easier for artists to make beautiful icons as bitmaps. They can use Photoshop and not just vector editors. Given that screen resolutions increase at a somewhat slow and predictable pace it means they can just redraw icons at higher resolutions from time to time to keep up with their hardware changes. They like to change art styles anyway.
- asddubs 5y agoWell, they don't have it in such a way that things are arbitrarily scaleable (although things are slowly moving in that direction). If you look at the demo video you can see the entire GUI scale right up and down in real time
- pmarreck 5y agoYou can store anything painted on a computer in a vector format and just rasterize it at will, no?
- joshspankit 5y agoYou definitely can
- pmarreck 5y agoLike, I almost want to say that vector should be the native format for anything created on a computer, even in "paint" programs (which might for example cache a rasterized version too)
- joshspankit 5y agoAgreed whole-heartedly