Re: SVG

[Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 05:59:43 +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote:

>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.
[...]
>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 
[snip]

FYI, there's an article at kde-look about a competition that's running
to design SVG wallpapers, the best 4 of which will "go into the next
release of KDE" [3.4] :
  http://www.kde-look.org/news/index.php?id=145

"last day to submit your KDE SVG wallpaper is January 8th 2005"

Nick Boyce
Bristol,UK
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