[Portland] SVG support?

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:04 +0200, Peter Åstrand wrote:
> 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?

I concur on this. I think this is wise and forward thinking...let the
packagers deal with the specifics...

Jon

> Btw, the documentation still claims that SVG is supported. 
> 
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