[Portland] SVG support?

[Peter Åstrand]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Bastian, Waldo wrote:

> Testing showed that the various linux desktop environments do not 
> support SVG icons very consistently and as such it can not be guaranteed 
> that an SVG icon will be rendered correctly or at all. I suggest to 
> install pre-rendered PNG's in various sizes instead.

I don't understand this logic. I want to do both. Why should we omit SVG 
support in xdg-utils just because some systems doesn't yet support it 
properly?

If we believe that SVG is something nice to have, we should do "our part". 
It's also a chicken-and-egg problem: If noone ships SVG:s, perhaps because 
xdg-utils doesn't allow this, it's no surprise that desktop environments 
ignore their SVG problems.

In any case, in the end, it should be up to the users of xdg-utils, 
that is packagers, to decide if they want to ship SVG:s or not. 

So can you please re-add the SVG support?

Btw, the documentation still claims that SVG is supported. 

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