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

Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> writes:
> Very cool...thanks. Performance wise, I do think that runtime bitmap
> caching of rendered svg could address the issue fairly completely once

Well, it's not just that.  In theory, SVG should be really fast.  But
computing stuff like dirty regions is hard to do efficiently in SVG,
so for now I'm very lazy and dirty much more stuff than I need to.
That's why (for now) SVG is slow.

I actually don't know how much of SVG I've broken ;) I'll figure it
out before the Nitrogen release and include a statement summarizing
what works and what doesn't.

  - a

> other things worked, since normally, widgets won't be resized or
> transformed. Even slow SVG would be interestig to start experimenting
> with this. Can you give a couple sentence summary of where SVG is at?
> The "futured" bug that says that svg is incomplete doesn't provide
> much info. ;-)
> 
> -Tupshin
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