Moving SvgPart from kdegraphics to kdebase/runtime

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 16 June 2008 10:59:59 Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> 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,

No objections.
As long as this doesn't make kdegraphics dependent on kdebase-runtime
or kdebase-runtime dependent on kdegraphics.

And as long as Olivier and Aaron are ok with it.