SVG icons

[Nikolas Zimmermann]

On Monday 08 April 2002 21:35, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:
> > > But if the intermediate goal (for say the 3.x range) is to have .svg
> > > as source format and to get an svg icon set compiled (rendered) into
> > > a .png based icon set at build time, then why is there a need to
> > > have libart and all that stuff in kdecore?
> >
> > "libart and all that stuff"
> >
> > libart could go into ie. kdesupport, sth like that.
> > but "all that stuff", i think you mean ksvgicon*.cpp, needs to stay there
> > because kdelibs/pics would need a conversation to png then?
>
> As said already: It is libart in kdelibs which disturbs us, and rightly
> so.  The classes written by yourself, for using libart, and converting
> svg->png and whatnot, those are appropriate for kdelibs, just like
> other buildtools, e.g. dcopidl.  Just libart needs another place, if we
> want to have our own at all, which only you can judge, depending on how
> wide it's already distributed.  I would guess, not very, so libart in
> kdesupport seems right.  Maybe even the full version, not a stripped down
> one, so the other KDE programs can make use of it without having their own
> copy.
Ok that sounds really great to me.
So i'll check out latest libart_lgpl from gnome cvs, put in the custom
ksvg patches and commit it into kdesupport/libart.

Any autoconf (make?) magic neeed?
To detect wheter it's installed or not.
Never done this before, Michael ?

Bye
 Bye
  Niko

>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.

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Nikolas Zimmermann
wildfox at kde.org