ksvg* and libart forking revisited

[Nikolas Zimmermann]

On Sunday 21 April 2002 10:41, Werner Trobin wrote:
> Hi (WildFox)!

Hi (Werner)!
>
> <rant>
> At the end of the last thread about that topic I got the impression that
> WildFox agreed to move libart out of kdecore. This didn't happen up to now,
> so I'd like to remind you why keeping libart in kdecore isn't a good idea:
Sorry i was very busy until today.
I'll do it today...

>
> An application like karbon or kontour, using the KOffice fork of libart
> works when started from the konsole, as it gets to use the libart version
> it linked to (the one in lib/kopainter/...). When started from kdeinit it
> seems to mix the two different libart versions (as only a part of libart is
> in kdecore).
>
> This leads to crashes for some people (Lenny told me about crashes) and to
> corrupted drawings for others as we're mixing rgb and rgba (check the 48KB
> screenshot at: http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/trobin/snapshot2.png).
>
> Can we please decide on *one* libart version and move it out of kdecore?
> I don't have enough knowledge about all the libart issues, so I can't do it
> unless you tell me which version to move to kdesupport.
> <rant/>
I'll do it now.

Sorry 

Bye
 Bye
  Niko

>
> Ciao,
> Werner

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Nikolas Zimmermann
wildfox at kde.org