Moving SvgPart from kdegraphics to kdebase/runtime

[Tokarev Vyacheslav]

Hi,

I'm a gsoc student working on the SVG library for khtml 
(porting of WebKit's
one, actually).

I just wanted to point out that my project is to provide 
native svg support
for khtml. And I already have some working code in my branch. 
So there is a
chance that this code will be merged in with trunk for kde 
4.2.

Also, that would be really helpful if you can provide the most 
needed features
from SVG renderer so I can put my efforts into doing the right 
things.

Best regards,
Vyacheslav Tokarev (vtokarev)

On Monday 16 June 2008 21:59:59 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,
>   Jakob