simon-git: putty (main): Simon Tatham

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TL;DR:
  a101444d New script to draw the icons as SVG.

Repository:     https://git.tartarus.org/simon/putty.git
On the web:     https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git
Branch updated: main
Committer:      Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:           2022-03-18 12:58:23

commit a101444d40c76557e27e9920ffd0768cd17b9940
web diff https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=a101444d40c76557e27e9920ffd0768cd17b9940;hp=accf9adac2b4b2371ab54ac92bb9d688fa650f5b
Author: Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 18 07:11:11 2022 +0000

    New script to draw the icons as SVG.
    
    This gets us scalable icons that will go to extremely large sizes
    without the problems that arise from scaling up the output of
    mkicon.py, in which outlines become too thin because the script was
    mostly concerned with trying to squeeze all the desired detail into
    _tiny_ sizes.
    
    The SVG icons are generated by mksvg.py, which is a conversion of the
    existing mkicon.py. So the SVG files themselves are not committed in
    this repo; 'make svg' in the icons subdir will generate them.
    
    (I haven't decided yet whether this state of affairs should be
    permanent. Perhaps _having_ generated the SVGs via a similar program
    to the bitmap icons, we should regard the script as a discardable
    booster stage and redesignate the SVGs themselves as the source format
    for future modifications, so that they can be edited in Inkscape or
    similar rather than by tinkering with Python. On the other hand,
    perhaps keeping the script will make it easier to keep the icon family
    consistent, e.g. if changing the style of one of the shared visual
    components.)
    
    My plan is that we should stick with the output of the previous
    bitmap-generating script for all the _small_ icons, up to and
    including 48 pixels, because it does a better job at low resolution.
    (That was really what it was for in the first place: you can think of
    it as an analogue of a scalable-font hinting system, to tune the
    scaling for very low res so that all the important features are still
    visible.)
    
    I think probably I want to switch the 128-pixel icons used in the Mac
    icon file over to being rendered from the SVG (though in this commit I
    haven't gone that far, not least because I'll also need to prepare a
    corresponding black and white version). I haven't done extensive
    research yet to decide where I think the crossover point in between
    is.

 icons/Makefile |   8 +-
 icons/mksvg.py | 938 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 945 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)