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Could this see the vectorization of kde?
by norman on Tuesday 16/Sep/2003, @01:03

With this engine, we don't need to settle for arbitrary icons anymore. Features like large/stretchable icons, icons coloring themselves depeinding on the color scheme. It would be a lot easier to do these things when the icons are vectors rather than prerendred png. KDE is a long way behind gnome when it comes to SVG graphics, and I'm glad KDE is starting to catchup with KDE.

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Re: Could this see the vectorization of kde?
by Datschge (has troubles with his i-net connection at home =( ) on Tuesday 16/Sep/2003, @01:39

"I'm glad KDE is starting to catchup with KDE"
I'm glad about that as well. ;)

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Re: Could this see the vectorization of kde?
by standsolid on Tuesday 16/Sep/2003, @02:31

yeah, it's about freaking time we caught up to those guys. I mean KDE has been SO far ahead for SO long... it's good to see some competition like KDE rock the boat a little. when desktops compete, it makes both of them better. ;p

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ROFL!!!
by mario on Tuesday 16/Sep/2003, @15:03

That's a funny ;)

Anyway, I don't think GNOME was ever ahead of KDE in SVG, it's jsut that they have had a shroter release cycle and so their work is already out while KDE 3.2 will be worked on for at least a year I hope. GNOME only has SVG icon rendering as does KDE 3.1. This implementation is much more than jsut icons.

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Re: ROFL!!!
by Maynard on Tuesday 16/Sep/2003, @17:30

No, the themes (GTK) can also be SVG. And Metacity I think.

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Re: ROFL!!!
by Thomas on Wednesday 17/Sep/2003, @00:15

No, I think, that there's an experimental vector-theme implementation available for gtk+, though it does not seem to be based on svg. It was made to test out the functionality of cairo (related to the XFree Project), which aims to incorporate vector based functionality into XFree.

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Re: ROFL!!!
by Maynard on Wednesday 17/Sep/2003, @10:05

No. There is a whole suite of themes. Gorilla, Nuvola, Lush, Wasp and Crystal. go to librsvg.sourceforge.net to check them out.

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Re: ROFL!!!
by Thomas on Wednesday 17/Sep/2003, @14:20

o.k... svg icons are not the most interesting part, we'll have crystal svg cions sooner or later plus any free svg icon themes from other desktops...(me thinks)...

I was speaking of a widget style made of vector gfx... well _that's_ cool...

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