technology
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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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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…