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Pixel Pal (PART 3) : Measuring model quality
Pixel Pal is a project I have started whose purpose is to bring new life to old icon themes. Many old icon themes are in raster format and are not available for HiDPI screens (their resolution are too small). Currently the only way to handle old icon themes is to resample them by the desired…
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Pixel Pal (PART 2) : Gathering data for Pixel Pal
Pixel Pal is a project I have started whose purpose is to bring new life to old icon themes. Many old icon themes are in raster format and are not available for HiDPI screens (their resolution are too small). Currently the only way to handle old icon themes is to resample them by the desired…
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Pixel Pal (PART 1) : Adapting old icon themes for HiDPI screens
I am starting a new open source project. The goal of this project is to solve a recurring issue with HiDPI support. The issues is that many old software rely on icon themes in raster format which are not suitable for HiDPI screens. To be more specific various software projects rely on icons which are…
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Measuring success with existing popular applications
Instead of comparing the number of applications distributed as Snaps, FlatPaks or AppImage as a measure of success, let’s see how many existing Linux software has moved to Snap, FlatPak or AppImage. It should give us an idea of how successful these new packaging formats are with old open source projects. Disclaimer: Now I must…