Re: dia, librsvg and cairo

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 17:31 +0900, pclouds wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know if dia is going to use librsvg/cairo as a primary
> renderer backend (not at the moment, perhaps in post 1.0 phase). Using
> librsvg allows us to have full (non-animated) svg support for shapes.
> This approach has a big disadvantage: all export plugins will be
> obsoleted. We can only export to what format cairo supports. Also gdk
> renderer backend will be dropped too so dia could not run as fast as
> before (unless we have another X backend for cairo). However i think
> pdf, ps, png and svg are enough for most of us. Cairo renderer has
> been available in cvs. Someone may tweak custom shape objects to use
> librsvg and then we can see the result.
> So one advantage and a lot of disadvantages, what do you think?

The exports and speedy renderer are not something I'd want to part with.
We could have Cairo being the primary backend, but that should not be
done by crippling other backends.  

-Lars

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