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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."
Soon you'll be able to have a desktop full of icons that are whatever low-polygon-count shape you want! I'm talking triangles, squares, trapezoids, you name it... aww yeah.
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
KDE has rendered SVG based icons since its 3.0 or 3.1 betas; this is nothing too new.
Even the Politburo concurs with Process of Elimination http://process-of-elimination.net
Comeon, havn't you seem KDE3.1 or Gnome Or OS X , Nice big fat ICONS with frilly bits on the side, even though there an inch and a half square you still can't work out what there ment to represent.
Think I'm joking?
KDE 3.1
Gnome
Mac OS X (couldn't find non-quicktime screen shorts!
ohh and this mac[dot]com possibly the worst designed website in the world.... Nothing's hot so you have to move the mouse randomly around the screen looking for an address poping up in the status bar....
Backup == Umbrella?
Well done, top marks.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.