SVG in Konqueror

[Dave Feustel]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:22:26PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Dave Feustel wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:05:39PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>> Dave Feustel wrote:
>>>> I've started learning about SVG as a result of finding out that SVG
>>>> is (partially) supported in Konqueror. Animations and some other
>>>> features do not seem to work yet. What is the current status of
>>>> SVG support in KDE?
>>>>
>>> SVG support is KDE is based on SVG support in Qt.
>>>
>>> Note that I don't think that this is the best situation since much   
>>> better SVG support is available in the Batik SVG toolkit (Apache).
>>
>> Is the Batik SVG toolkit something I could use without
>> installing/activating Apache?
>
> Yes it is an independent package, however, it is written in Java.  This  
> means that you can either use it with JNI (which is now [indirectly] a  
> dependency for KDE4) or try to build it with GCJ (which may or may not  
> work).
>>
>> Thanks.

I am still staying very far away from any packages with Java
dependencies. I *was* again getting interested in Java, but actually
seeing what is involved in getting Java installed scared me away from it again.
Java is just too much of a monster for me to get involved with.