[Interest] QtSVG deprecated

Constantin Makshin cmakshin at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 14:16:24 CET 2012


librsvg? Yes, it's [official] web site seems abandoned, but:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/librsvg/
http://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/gnome-base/librsvg

I don't see any signs of librsvg's death.
On Jan 10, 2012 1:48 PM, "Konstantin Tokarev" <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:

> 10.01.2012, 10:18, "Constantin Makshin" <cmakshin at gmail.com>:
> > On Jan 10, 2012 7:59 AM, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> >> On Monday, 9 de January de 2012 16.47.49, Alex Malyushytskyy wrote:
> >> > As somebody mentioned above svg is the great way to create scalable
> graphics
> >> > which currently works an all platforms including icons (but not
> >> > limited to icons).
> >> >
> >> > Would you advice adding  webkit dependency for such purpose?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> > Using a 20MB monster just to rasterize toolbar/menu/... icons? That
> looks crazy to me.
> > librsvg seems to be better in this case -- the library itself and its
> dependencies (libcroco, cairo, etc.) will take a few megabytes, but that
> still would be much more lightweight solution than WebKit.
>
> Unfortunately, It's also deprecated (e.g. AFAIK it was removed from Gentoo)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Konstantin
>
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