Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus resizing and SVG icons

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On 2/8/02 2:23 AM, "Martin Coxall" <coxall cream org> wrote:

>> I haven't looked at the code, but I've noticed that resizing SVG icons
>> is REALLY slow compared to regular (png) ones.
> 
> Indeed. And using and scaling SVG images in sodipodi on the same machine
> tells me that my machine (dual 500 Mhz coppermine celerons) is more than
> capable of scaling SVG icons smoothly, just that the Nautilus
> implementation is unusably slow.

Nautilus uses Raph Levien's librsvg to render SVGs, which uses libart for
the text and librsvg for the graphics. I imagine this library could be made
a *lot* faster, and I'd appreciate some contributions to make this happen.

    -- Darin