KSVG - ready for KDE 3.1?

[Klas Kalass]

Am Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2002 15:58 schrieb Nikolas Zimmermann:
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 14:23, Klas Kalass wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2002 14:43 schrieb Nikolas Zimmermann:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > as we get svg icon support for KDE 3.1 people
> > > may wonder if they can view normal svg files.
> > >
> > > They'll open konqueror and for a directory which
> > > contains svg files the svg icon engine thumbnailer
> > > is triggered.. it'll produce "not-so-good-results" as most
> > > svg stuff is not supported.
> > >
> > > That'll make ppl say "svg in kde is shit".
> > >
> > > So we, Rob Buis, David Faure and me wondered
> > > if an inclusion of KSVG is too late for 3.1?
> > >
> > > We'd like to see it in kdegraphics.
> >
> > You know that I am very supportive of the idea to put ksvg in one of the
> > main kde modules, but last time I tried it my results were not very good:
> > opening the svg penguin that is linked from KC KDE took >> 80 MB RAM and
> > when I tried http://www.adobe.com/svg/demos/main.html all my RAM (128MB)
> > + Swap (256 MB) was not enough...
> >
> > That was 1-2 weeks ago I think. Has this been fixed or do you think that
> > you will be able to fix it in time?
> > If yes, then I support to have it in kdegraphics.
> >
> > Klas
>
> Hi Klas,
Hi Nico,

>
> first of all you shouldn't make this decision depending on if one
> particular file works or not. We pass many official test cases and many
> files i've found in the net during the last _year_.
My point was not wether the file works: If ksvg eats up more than 80 MB it 
makes many systems unusable, and the adobe site cost me a long time until my 
system responded again. That sort of bug is far worse than "does not work".
But I updated ksvg today and now konqueror crashes on some files, I'll send 
more info in private mail. I was able to provoke eating large amounts of 
memory (>> 200 MB) by browsing the Batik test files with icon preview on, but 
I was not able to reproduce that.

>
> Adobe's files are known to be slow and mem-consuming on EVERY other svg
> implementation except adobe svg viewer itself.
>
> If it's a big file, support for big files has been improved last weekend.
> Please send me your file and i'll test.
The file that made problems last time I checked is 20k, but now it works 
wonderfully. Must have been a very bad day for testing. Keep on the good 
work!

greetings,
Klas