Playing with SVG...

[Rodrigo Coacci]

On 9/30/06, Stephan Arts <psybsd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 9/30/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > It took me a long time but I finally came out with some SVG theme for
> xfwm4.
> >
> > You can grab it here:
> >
> >  - Screenshot:
> > http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/themes/Kokodi-svg-theme.png
> >
> >  - Theme:
> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/themes/Xfwm4-Kokodi-4.tar.bz2
> >
> > 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'!!!
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> i think that about covers my opinion.
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> >
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
>
> Stephan


I like it very much also. Probably will become _my_ default theme....

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Cheers,
      Rodrigo
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