[Librsvg-devel] Re: [Clipart] Re: svg shell extension

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:36 +0100, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:12 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
> wrote:
> > Hi Carl,
> > Caleb Moore has just completed (some polish remaining) a re-work of
> > librsvg in CVS allowing the use of different backends than libart. The
> > main reason for this was to be able to add a Cairo backend. 
> > 
> > What would be great at this point would be if you would be interested in
> > dropping xsvg and instead help out with librsvg, especially the Cairo
> > backend part. 
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Just a nitpick, but you're probably referring to libsvg-cairo as opposed
> to xsvg?  xsvg (as an SVG viewer frontend) actually seems more advanced
> than librsvg's rsvg-view, due to its panning and zooming functionality.
> librsvg on the other hand has a Mozilla plugin which I think is great.

Ah, didn't know Carl had split it out like that. Originally afaik so was
xsvg the name of the his fork of librsvg. librsvg have EOG as a viewer
which I would guess gives you the same features and more that you get
with xsvg then (disclaimer never seen this xsvg frontend before).

That said I think Cairo is probably a bit overhyped atm,. not convinced
the rendering speed of librsvg will increase *that* much due to Cairo,
but I would love to be proved wrong.

Christian