Re: SVG

[Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:54:41PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
> I have never been able to get SVG files to work properly in KDE. I'm using 
> 3.3.1-1 from sid on sarge. I have KSVG installed, and 'svgdisplay' shows the 
> graphic fine, and Konqueror shows thumbnails for them. Fiddling with the SVG 
> mimetype allows me to see them in Konqueror, but I still can't use them as 
> icons or desktop backgrounds.

> Am I doing something wrong here, or are the Debian KDE packages incapable of 
> using SVG in these ways?

SVG desktop backgrounds is only supported in CVS head.  The SVG icon
renderer is turned off in KDE by default because it's too slow,
unreliable and there arn't any SVG icons anyway.  

Expect things to improve for KDE 4 with a new svg icon engine, KSVG 2
and a new crystal icon set (fingers crossed on the generosity of
Linspire with that last one).

Incidently KSVG is unrelated to the SVG icon engine.

Jonathan Riddell