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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: svg crystal?
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-11-12 21:09:51
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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:46 pm, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:
|  On Tuesday 12 November 2002 18:25, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
|  > As far as I know, the base for Crystal are SVG pictures. But KDE still
|  > can nly use PNG icons.
|  >
|  > Have a nice day/evening/night!
|
|  No, we can also render SVGs since quite some months :)
|  We prerender the icons and commit the generated ones, for
|  speed reasons. (PNG loading is faster than SVG rendering...).

I believe it's possible to reduce this gap.
I don't know what is typical time to load PNG, but good SVG icon can be 
rendered in less than 0.5 sec.  I think I have posted some exact figures for 
KSVG and librsvg2 on <kde-cafe> list.

Besides, taking into consideration Carl Worth's efforts (Xr, Xc, xsvg/libsvg), 
we can expect rendering tasks accelerated in hardware pretty soon. 

All people interested in those technologies are invited to subscribe to XSVG 
mailing list:
     http://neptune.east.isi.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xsvg
and discuss rendering issues (and SVG rendering in X) there.

|
|   Bye
|    Niko
|  - --
|  Nikolas Zimmermann
|  wildfox@kde.org

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