Re: GNOME CVS: gnome-core mmclouglin

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:
> >         I didn't realise it, but this was actually discussed before
> > and a solution was even designed[1], but not implemented ....
> >
> >         Essentially, when configuring, take the icon, encode it in xml
> > and stuff it in the .server file. It would work, and its all very
> > exotic and stuff, but personally I think its rather crack laden :-)
>
> I think this sounds better when you consider SVG as the logical XML
> type, and that we have talked about supporting SVG icons for awhile.
>
> SVG icons also would be themeable in ways that pixmaps are not - i.e.
> filter and color substitution, scaling, etc.
>
> I heard recently that we have a librsvg library (from Raph I think) that
> can render simple SVG, so this mightn't be as far away as it looks.

Also, SVG is easily localizable, which is a big advantage. Finally the
problems with hard-coded texts in pictures in various icons and dialogs
will be solved.

<the_doctors_voice>I'm a translator, not a graphics
artist</the_doctors_voice>


Christian