Major Step Forward For SVG in the Desktop

Ur@eus writes "SVG the w3c format for Scalable Vector Graphics is seen as many as the future of desktop icons as it allows for scaling icons etc. without loss of quality. Dominic Lachowicz has been working hard on fixing bugs in librsvg over the last few days. The result is that librsvg now renders all available SVG icons perfectly. Not only do it render them, but it renders them faster than libpng renders the same images in png format. Together with the gdkpixbuf plugin librsvg offer it means GNOME 2.2 will be able to use SVG images not only for icons or desktop backgrounds, but also for the GUI widgets themselves and the graphics of the window manager. Dom's announcement can be found on the librsvg mailinglist. The librsvg site also offer a GNOME 2.2 metatheme using mostly SVG icons including a nice screenshot."

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Re:Not needed for desktop

[Twirlip of the Mists]

You should buy a Mac. On a Mac, all the eye candy is offloaded to the graphics coprocessor(s), and iTunes and QuickTime player (those are like XMMS and Mplayer, only you don't have to compile them, and they always work) run smoothly, Safari (like Mozilla, but without the bloat) renders fast, Photoshop (like GIMP, but with real tools and support for CMYK) runs without bogging down, etc.

See, it seems to me that you Linux guys are just trying to reinvent the wheel, here. The problems that you all complain about-- fast graphics, a good desktop environment, media tools, and so on-- have already been solved. The near-universal insistence on using tools that are poor imitations at best can only be described as perverse.