On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
Work is ongoing to leverage qt4/WebKit to improve this, but afaik, there's no eta for that turning into anything useful.
I'll have to look at WebKit a little on my own I guess..since it seems to be the current buzzword.
My general and woefully uninformed feeling however is that, right now, we have a problem with the sophistication of our svg renders as exposed in desktop application frameworks and that's causing some non-trivial problems for graphical element development.
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. 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.
Until the golden-age of WebKit supremacy arrives to save us, I'd love to be able to access inkscape's svg rendering into gtk directly as an alternative to librsvg, to do side by side comparisons, but I have no idea what that would take. If wishes were fishes, I'd be running my own fish oil dietary supplement factory.
-jef