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If you were using Elementary Icons by DanRabbit, then you may experienced the same problem as I did. Because of the huge size of it’s SVG format, the process of loading the icons is very very slow like hell. Wanna prove? Just try to open a Save As dialog (i.e when you try to save a page on Firefox), and feel the slowness … *giggles* … It’s so bad since I think Dan had succeeded to create beautiful Linux icons I’ve ever known (besides Shiki Colors created by Perfectska).

Then I go search all over the world to find the PNG version or if there is no PNG version then the best way to convert those SVG’s to PNG on a single hit. My luck, today I found the answer on some dude’s comment on DanRabbit’s deviantart page (which should be the place I went at the first time *fool me*). You could find it here.

On terminal, just type:

for i in `find /home/yourname/.icons/elementary_2.0 -depth -name ‘*.svg’`; do rsvg-convert $i -o `echo $i | sed -e ’s/svg$/png/’`; done

Then you type this to remove all the SVG’s:

for i in `find /home/alvonsius/Desktop/elementary_2.0 -depth -name ‘*.svg’`; do rm $i; done

That’s it … you’ll get the PNG version. Hmm … you asked … why didn’t I upload the result here? Well … it’s only a few lines of command, you couldn’t be that hard to implement it,  and also I think it would be great if you come and visit Dan’s page and give him some support ^^

Updated (2009.04.01) : I can’t hardly believe, the same day I posted this writing, DanRabbit is releasing the “shrinked” version of Elementary Icon (2.0.5). Still with the SVG version, but smaller in size. You can get it from this link. Thanks dude!!! *and yes, this is not another April Mop trick*

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