Playing with SVG...

[Stephan Arts]

On 9/30/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> As you may (or may not) know yet, xfwm4 4.4 supports a wide range of
> image formats, including SVG as long as the underlying gdk-pixbuf loader
> supports it (ie you have librsvg installed).
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> It took me a long time but I finally came out with some SVG theme for xfwm4.
>
> You can grab it here:
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>  - Screenshot:
> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/themes/Kokodi-svg-theme.png
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>  - Theme: http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/themes/Xfwm4-Kokodi-4.tar.bz2
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> Now the question is, should I switch to this for default 4.4 theme?
>
> Q: What if someone doesn't have librsvg installed?
> A: The theme features PNG as fallback if SVG is not supported
>
> Q: The PNG theme doesn't look exactly the same as the SCG one
> A: Yes, I know, it seems inkscape doesn't render the SVG exactly the
> same as librsvg.
>
> Q: Do you plan to convert all existing themes to SVG?
> A: Definitely not! It took me a lot of work to make this theme, and I
> can't do that for all existing themes...
>
> Q: Why not converting the current default theme to SVG then?
> A: See previous answer.
>
> Q: But anyway, what's wrong with current default?
> A: Nothing's wrong, it looks a bit too much like Clearlooks Metacity
> theme maybe, but that's not intended since the current default theme is
> derived from my theme Just4fun [1] I released a while back in may '05.
>
> [1] http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php?content=24451
>
> So, opinion, anyone?

I have not much to say, except 'PERFECT'!!!

i think that about covers my opinion.

>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.

Stephan