On Monday 08 April 2002 20:55, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:53:38PM +0200, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:

> > It actually is, just not "visible" for the user. But during the
> > compiletime the icons (in future, for example all kde icons are
> > svg, to make it easier for artists) are converted from svg to png.
> > So we'd need that in kdelibs, somehow.
> >
> > You understand me?
>
> But if the intermediate goal (for say the 3.x range) is to have .svg
> as source format and to get an svg icon set compiled (rendered) into
> a .png based icon set at build time, then why is there a need to
> have libart and all that stuff in kdecore?

There isn't.

If it's just used at buildtime, it should be a self-contained tool, not 
built in to kde at all. Putting it in libs is just pure bloat.

When we get real-time rendering of svg icons, that's a different matter 
altogether.

Andy

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