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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."
I know I'm beating a dead horse, but it bothers the hell out of me.
Will it do anything to fix that godawful file selector box in Gnome? No? Then work on that first.
Thank you. I'll be here all week.
We'd really like to use this library in a project for the company I work for, but the LGPL has a paragraph about reverse engineering which is incompatible to our license and other other library licenses for third party libraries.
I wish people would stop using the LGPL and GPL and use some less tar-pit-trap-like licenses, this just means that we will have to duplicate the effort for no good reason what so ever.
Scale that, bitches!