[plug] Vector Desktop (Display Manager)

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Wed Nov 10 13:11:50 WST 2004


In message <41916C0F.6010205 at tigris.org>
on Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:17:03AM +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> I know that Mac OS X has vector icons and many icon sets for KDE and 
> Gnome vector based. But what about the rest of the desktop?

My understanding is that with Quartz and Aqua (the Mac OS X graphics and
windowing environments) the icons are bitmaps but everything else is
vectors (Apple touts Quartz as being PDF-based). Regarding icons, they
are scaled so well that they seem to be vectorised, but actually aren't.





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