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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: [Panel-devel] svg rendering
From:       Sean Harmer <sh () theharmers ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-11-01 14:03:34
Message-ID: 200711011403.34945.sh () theharmers ! co ! uk
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On Thursday 01 November 2007, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007 13:16:43 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007, Sean Harmer wrote:
> > > A problem that I have just run into is that in Qt 4.3.x rendering of
> > > fonts is not supported outside of the GUI thread. This leads to
> > > problems when trying to render for e.g. the analog clock SVG in a
> > > separate thread.
>
> I don't think using fonts in SVGs are a good idea either. We should just
> say it's not supported, after all, fonts make many more problems than what
> they could ever solve, and in inkscape it's one click to turn text into
> paths.
I agree. Anyway, I've added a setHasText(bool) function to Plasma::Svg which 
disables threading for that particular Svg.

The only thing left to do on this now is to implement some smarter caching 
policy. I'll submit this shortly.

Cheers,

Sean

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