Re: RFC: use svg for widgets instead of png/gif

Nah, Nitrogen will ship without full SVG support.

  - a

Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> writes:
> Adam Megacz wrote:
> 
> >Cons: SVG doesn't work yet.
> >
> >Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> writes:
> >  
> >
> >>Just an idea, which I'd like to hear people's thoughts on. What if we 
> >>were to have no bitmaps in the xwt widgets. All buttons, etc., in the 
> >>core widget set could be implemented as SVG.
> >>
> >>Pros:
> >>1) Fully scalable vector based UI. Great for accessibility, etc.
> >>2) No external dependencies...all UI specified in XML.
> >>3) Interesting programmatic transformation possibilities (rotation, 
> >>color, etc)
> >>
> >>Cons:
> >>1) rendering overhead (addressable by caching rendered versions?)
> >>2) additional widget development learning curve
> >>3) unknown svg bugs/limitations in xwt core
> >>
> >>Thoughts?
> >>
> >>-Tupshin
> >>
> Hmm...that falls into con #3, I think. ;-).  I would have thought that 
> SVG not working would be a nitrogen blocker...no?
> 
> -Tupshin
> 
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