Re: SVG implementations [Fwd: Re: checking for GTK and glib in configure.in.in ?]
Vadim Plessky <[email protected]>
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On Friday 08 August 2003 18:38, Rob Kaper wrote: | On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:03:21AM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: [...] | | But since you brought it here: | | I would personally be against the use of GTK+ in any KDE application | because a KDE application is what it is by utilizing the Qt toolkit and KDE | extensions of it. Yes, it is sometimes easier to take existing code and | ignore any GUI and coding inconsistencies, but that's not what KDE is | about. | | GTK+ and glib don't offer much that Qt and KDE don't offer as well, so I | see no reason to add several extra dependencies because developers of an | SVG implementation have to do less work. | Why you wnat GTK+ for SVG implementtaion? AFAIK, KSVG doesn't need GTK+. And Xr/Xc (now renamed to Cairo) does not need GTK as well. Carl Worth has put a lot of efforts to REMOVE all GTK, Pango, etc. dependencies (when he was coding XSVG using some librsvg code). [...] | | Rob -- Best Regards, Vadim Plessky SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released http://svgicons.sourceforge.net Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.