musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Make plugin thumbnails in SVG format
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feature request
P4
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Description
Your idea
Use SVG files for plugin thumbnails instead of PNGs.
- PNG plugin thumbnails are huge (about 350 kb per each), ~3 MB in total
- Some plugins share the same thumbnail, but in fact each plugin has its own thumbnail copy
Problem to be solved
I expect SVG plugin thumbnails can reduce size of setup file by ~2.5 MB.
Prior art
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Locate the PNG plugin thumbnails and the setup-file packaging configuration, then measure their current size and duplication; done means SVG thumbnails replace the PNG copies and the setup size is reduced by about 2.5 MB.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100