Open Moko Themes

[Tim Newsom]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 7:08, Emre Turkay wrote:
> On 6/13/07, Peter A Trotter <peter.trotter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If the application is then used on a different form factor device you 
>> can
>> simply produce a new SVG file. All the UI script and images are linked 
>> to
>> the SVG.
>>
>> This also gives us a nice separation of people who are good at making 
>> things
>> look good and those of us who know the loop preconditions / 
>> postconditions
>> without even thinking.
>>
>> If openmoko is to deal with multiple different devices/resolutions 
>> this will
>> be a key feature.
>
> I totally agree that openmoko graphics should be in a vector graphics
> format. Generate the bitmaps bigger for neo and maybe smaller for
> iphone, etc. Storing the generated bitmaps in .png or .svg files does
> really don't much matter. If .svg provides embedding bitmaps, why not.
>
> emre
>

As I understand it, you would not even need to build a different svg 
file.  You could use the same one and it could automatically scale 
because the engine would scale it..  It should be possible (in my mind) 
to take a layout for 320 x 240 and draw it perfectly at 648 x 480.. Any 
image bitmaps would be out of sync unless you changed them but if its 
all done in svg it would render perfeclt.  Same the other way.. All 
ratios would be the same (assuming a smaller display in the same 
orientation and proportional dimensions) so the exact same skin and 
theme would not need translation at all (except any embedded bitmaps).

Again, that's how I understand it currently.
--Tim