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mtpaint 3.34+svn
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technosaurus
 Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843 |
I compiled the latest mtPaint as a single compile (for >100kb or ~20% size reduction) the executable is now only 400kb If someone wants to update/modernize the icons I will recompile it (see icons1.tar.gz) FYI to get it to compile this small I had to do this in directory src:
_________________ Puppy Web Desktop Now with pet packages - Pet Packaging 100 & 101 Last edited by technosaurus on Sun 15 Nov 2009, 19:19; edited 2 times in total |
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 |
A great example how failing to read docs leads one to heroically "solving" the wrong problem. 
- results in a 429 Kb binary, when stripped the same way as yours - with full performance optimizations. While the one you produced is 400 Kb - optimized for size. Paying a 50% performance hit for 29 Kb of diskspace pre-compression - quite a tradeoff indeed. 
BTW, none in the mixed bag of extra compiler options you've added have any positive effect on binary size - except "-Wl,--gc-sections" which saved whopping 120 bytes. 
-= With best regards, Dmitry Groshev, maintainer of mtPaint =- |
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ttuuxxx
 Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
Well I re-themed my compile with tango/gnome icons which were bigger in overall size 22x22 instead of 20x20 but fix mostly on the 20x20 layer, still more colours etc and well it grew a bit, but I would rather have it look newer and toss like 45kb's out the door 
Anyway can we could get a png version instead of xpm, the icon sizes would be a lot smaller plus when changing from tango png to xpm formats the transparencies get too dark and ruined. Thanks for your great product
ttuuxxx
_________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 |
Yes, definitely looks nice with these icons. But myself, I still prefer the original set - I like sharp outlines more than alpha blending.
To compile PNG icons into the binary, I'll need to write something to convert them into C source code - directly converting them to object files is architecture dependent:
But won't it be better to simply make mtPaint themeable? I can add "Default theme" entry to "Preferences->Paths", accepting a gtkrc file like the one here: /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Default/imagerc . Then, everyone could easily switch to whatever iconset one prefers. The cost in terms of code size will be slight. And naturally, this will support PNG icons out of the box. |
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
wow that would be excellent if you could do that, then the icons would look 10X times better quality. They would have the same quality as gimp, because they are the same tango ones used by gimp, They lost a lot of quality when converting the original png to xpm, below is the same icons used in gimp. Plus it would make others who are used to gimp to know there way around mtpaint, now if we could just have a layers and colour wheel selection stationary on the right hand side,
ttuuxxx
_________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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technosaurus
Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843 |
What is the 50% performance hit based on? Is that real world experience with your program or just a rule of thumb? I did some basic usage tests with -O2, -Os and -O3 and at least on my main 1.8ghz machine there was no noticable difference. I may pull out my DECtop (geode gx2) and run tests on it to verify, but I may wait for the theming - sounds great. The reason I build it that way instead of using the make files is to test the effects of different optimizations (for myown educational purposes) -combine only works on .c files and not .o files and that tends to improve both performance and size (it works even better in later versions of gcc) @ttuuxxx looks pretty good and it may actually save some size if there is theming since we could just use some symlinks then. _________________ Puppy Web Desktop Now with pet packages - Pet Packaging 100 & 101 |
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 |
Technically, this is easy to do (now that I know how); the largest problem for me is actually assembling a set of icon files to test it on.
So it would be appreciated if you sent me the icons you used for your mtPaint build (PNGs, not XPMs) - my time saved on searching for the wherever the original files are on the Web, could then be put to better use actually implementing theming support.
Actually, layers are there already, in current dev version: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/temp/mtpaint-3.34.16.tar.bz2 Now, if layers window or settings toolbar aren't open as separate window, they are instead placed into the dock pane: "View->Show Dock" As for colour selector (which one, BTW - A&B, or palette editor?), it is technically possible to put it in dock as well - but there is already no space remaining in the first pane, with settings and layers in there. So it'll have to go onto another page of the dock, and therefore could be shown only while settings-and-layers page is hidden. Also, there is a separate question of undoing changes; now it is obvious - change to palette is pushed onto undo stack when user presses OK - but when to do so if colour editor is non-modal? (One more-or-less sensible possibility is - "when colour editor loses input focus".) BTW, dynamic preview for all colour editors is already implemented in dev branch as well - the "Preview" button is now a toggle. |
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 |
This is Gaussian blur working 1.5 times slower on the machine I'm writing this on. The filter I normally use as a performance measure.
Given that mtPaint is designed to handle "basic usage" even on a 486, the slowdown should have been an order of magnitude greater to be noticeable that way. Which is why I use a processing-heavy filter for testing performance.
This is what I said about ignoring the docs. I've already tested available gcc options extensively, some time ago; picked those few optimizations which improve performance without disproportionately increasing the binary size, and made ' ./configure release ' enable them, and also disable GTK's debug code.
On gcc 3.4.6, no effect at all; will try on gcc 4.2.3 later today and see what happens. EDIT: And what happened was: on gcc 4.2.3, "-combine" saved 140 bytes. Last edited by wjaguar on Thu 17 Sep 2009, 13:39; edited 1 time in total |
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
Ok I'll do it, I'm in the middle of making a gtk2 theme so I'll be about 1hr or so
ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
Ok here's the icons, There a lot of extras for you to choose from
ttuuxxx
_________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 |
OK, here is themeable mtPaint, and you can do the choosing yourself.
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/temp/mtpaint-3.34.17.tar.bz2 Now for each builtin XPM icon "src/icons1/xpm_whatever.xpm" there is matching stock ID "mtpaint_whatever", and if you define an icon for that ID in 'imagerc' (or whatever you decide to call the theme file), it will override the builtin one. Naturally, this supports PNG icons and full alpha transparency - both are GTK2's builtin features, I only needed to make use of them. |
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technosaurus
Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843 |
Awesome, thanks so much for all your work on mtPaint. It continues to be a very integral part of Puppy. _________________ Puppy Web Desktop Now with pet packages - Pet Packaging 100 & 101 |
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vovchik
 Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1230 Location: Ukraine |
Dear wjaguar, Thanks very much for the new version of mtpaint and the new theming capability. Could you possibly provide a sample mtpaintrc, or a bit of it, so that I can see the proper syntax. I have tried
as a test but got no results. Without the quotes I got an error message. I am certain that the solution is simple. With kind regards, vovchik |
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wjaguar
Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 |
Here it is:
The complete documentation on allowed syntax and what it means, is here: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-Resource-Files.html, under the "Styles" heading. Last edited by wjaguar on Thu 17 Sep 2009, 14:05; edited 1 time in total |
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vovchik
Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1230 Location: Ukraine |
Dear wjaguar, Thanks very much. I didn't realize that you were using standard gtk2 rc syntax. I will now try that out and report on my progress. With kind regards, vovchik |
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