Jeff Spaleta wrote:
My understanding is that inkscape is using its own internal svg rendering codebase, which isn't exported as a library for other applications to make use of more directly.
Inkscape uses Cairo AFAIK.
So we end up doing reasonably good artist svg work in this fabulous svg oriented application..but when we go to render the svg's later via rsvg, we don't get the results we expect. I'm guessing the KDE svg-basic thingie has similar problems.
Are we actually using svg for the icons? I was under the impression the artists are exporting them to PNG to various sizes (under the standard icon themes in /usr/share/gnome/icons follow) so that they match the pixel grid.
Even if the SVG renderer is perfect and flawless, it will never beat the artist hand-tweaking the artwork to render within the pixel grid per icon size.
~m