ArchWiki Gnome Tips! Convert svg icons to png?

Hey, I was reading this ArchWiki page,
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Tips
and I came across this:
"Due to an improper coded GNOME drawing library, some actions in GNOME can slow the system. If the theme icons are in SVG format, they make the system slower. A very fast improvement is to either use icons in PNG format or to convert the used icons into the PNG format."
This is however all that is said there.
I would like to know a few things:
a) Is this comment only valid for older versions of Gnome, or is it still valid? [I am running the fully upgraded Gnome as is available in the repositories.]
b) Are we talking about substantial performance increase here or is just tweaking for the heck of it? [Even though I love that a lot myself, but this is for information. ]
c) I have no idea, how to convert svg icon libraries to png. So if we decide that it is indeed beneficial to be doing this, it would be great if someone could redirect me to how to change these svg icons to the png format.
Thanks a lot for the help [apprehended! ]

hey I just thought of another question, because I converted my svg icons to png using lolilolicon's method!
d) how to i tell gnome to use those icons instead of the svg icons. where and what settings do i have to change for this to be possible?
Last edited by akhilbehl (2010-03-16 02:17:50)

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