libplasma2 and QtSvg

[Alexis Ménard]

And I'll be happy to help on that respect since I'm working on WebKit every day.

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Alexis Ménard <menard at kde.org> wrote:
> It's Depecrated, it doesn't mean someone can't come up with a replacement.
>
> QtSvg is buggy, just ask Nuno and it will tell you how much he hates
> that module. It supports only a subset of the potential of SVG spec
> and when I was in Nokia there was no-one to work on it, and we even
> broke it badly one day.
>
> To me the solution lies in WebKit, I asked if the API was stable and
> it seems that yes it's pretty good. So if we have an interest (which I
> believe we do a lot), then we should make the QtSvg on top of WebKit
> API happens.
>
> :D.
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 12, 2011 19:03:27 Davide Bettio wrote:
>>> As you can see here [1] QtSvg has been marked as deprecated.
>>> Do we have any plan about it?
>>
>> no, because Qt doesn't have a clear plan about it. fortunately for us, QtSvg
>> is completely hidden behind Plasma::Svg so we can swap it out once Qt figures
>> out how it will expose the SVG implementation in WebKit for general
>> consumption.
>>
>> --
>> Aaron J. Seigo
>> humru othro a kohnu se
>> GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43
>>
>> KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Plasma-devel mailing list
>> Plasma-devel at kde.org
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
>>
>>
>