Moving SvgPart from kdegraphics to kdebase/runtime

Jakob Petsovits jpetso at gmx.at
Mon Jun 16 15:59:59 BST 2008


Hi list,

Today I had wanted to fix Konqueror so it can also display SVG icons on the 
about:konqueror page. Seems I didn't get to that fix though - unfortunately, 
Konqueror cannot display SVGs in web pages by itself (neither with <embed> 
nor <object> nor <iframe> tag).

The reason for this is that SVG support requires the SvgPart in kdegraphics, 
which I don't have installed in my KDE 4 dev environment. One would assume 
that this is the case for a lot of people out there, and all of those are 
going to miss out on SVGs in web pages.

Worse yet, web developers can't rely on those being supported, which is an 
unfortunate situation considering that SvgPart enables this functionality 
with a single .cpp file that is only minimally larger than its header.

So, for the sake of W3C standards compliance, can we please move SvgPart to 
kdebase/runtime so that it's installed everywhere where KHTML shows up?
Or maybe kdelibs itself, depends on what you think is more appropriate.
Given the size of the codebase, I can't imagine any of those to pose any 
problem, especially when compared to the obvious benefits.

Please? Thanks,
  Jakob




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