Comments from a svg guru

[Zeljko Vukman]

On Thursday 31 October 2002 10:41 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> I fully agree that SVG should be considered *key technology* in KDE, and
> not only in KDE but in other Open-Source projects.
> So, in my opinion, SVG should be foundation of any Linux (UNIX) desktop,
> and 'libsvg' (let's suppose that we have one unified SVG renderer/library)
> should be at the same level as libpng, libtiff, libmng.
> It should be installed (and used) on all Desktop Linux systems.
> Current variety of often incompatible SVG renderer heavily hurts progress
> with SVG adoption.
>
> ***
> As about such specific application for SVG as SVG icons.
> I think Desktop users would greatly benefit from SVG icons, as:
> a) it saves disk space (modern icon theme can easily consume 10MB of disk
> space)
> b) provides "new touch" to the images
> Legacy bitmap icons, while can be very interesting & unique, often have
> *coarse* look & feel.
> c)  it's posisble to *theme* icon themes, via external CSS stylesheet for
> SVG (so, you can make 15 themes from just one, supposing that you have
> well-written SVG with CSS styling)
>
> I also pleased to announce "alpha" release of BlueSphere SVG Icon theme.
> You can download it from here:
> http://freetype.newmail.ru/svg/BlueSphere-0.1.zip

> Vadim
>

Can't be opened by Karbon, and opened in Sodipodi they are corrupted.

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antialias