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Major Step Forward For SVG in the Desktop

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-things-along dept.

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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  1. great lib name by RobertTaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    gdkpixbuf

    That looks like someone headbutted the keyboard...

    1. Re:great lib name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, it's the obvious choice.

      How else would you abbreviate "GNU's not UNIX Image Manipulation Program ToolKit DrawingKit Picture Element Buffer"?

    2. Re:great lib name by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "gdkpixbuf
      That looks like someone headbutted the keyboard..."

      He had his cat name it.

  2. Re:Just more OSX themes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should look at the possibilities BEYOND icons...

    cat pr0n.gz | gunzip | svgviewer

    "mmmmm, scalable porn...."

  3. Re:Not needed for desktop by yatest5 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Why not? The scalable aspect means you would only have to supply one icon file for different resolutions.


    Wow, lets hope they solve the mass storage problem sometime soon so we can store 4 or 5 copies of each icon.

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  4. Re:Once again... /.'ers rally against the cause... by abe+ferlman · · Score: 2, Funny

    nice, but they can't go any bigger than 256x256

    And I've been trying like mad to get them to change this. All I want is a single 1024x768 icon for Emacs on my desktop.

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  5. Dependency hell by marmoset · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is cool and all, but is anyone else shuddering at the idea of a Gnome build with even more library dependencies than it has now? Screw getting a cup of coffee while Gnome builds, it's more like grow your own beans, roast them, age them, grind them...

  6. Re:I just don't care! by doubleyewdee · · Score: 2, Funny
    SVG is Good Stuff(tm).

    How about "SVG's Very Good"?
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