Cursors take up most of the installed size of the icon theme

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Cursors take up most of the installed size of the icon theme #136

Open jackpot51 opened 6 months ago

jackpot51 commented 6 months ago

Issue Type

Bug Report

Operating System

Pop!_OS

OS Version

22.04

Icon Theme Version

3.5.0~1687556040~22.04~3126c6a

What happened?

Out of all the folders included in the Pop icon theme, the cursors folder takes up vastly more space. 58M /usr/share/icons/Pop/cursors

Expected Outcome

Reduce the size of the cursors folder

Other Information

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murilomentor commented 3 months ago

Please take a look at the hyprcursor standard for reference. The cursor files are very small because they are just SVGs, and also they scale very well for fractional scaling.

https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprcursor

ryanabx commented 1 month ago

Also check out the new KDE attempt at standardizing svg cursors: https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2024/10/06/svg-cursors-everything-that-you-need-to-know-about-them/