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On 2 Jan 2007 22:01:19 -0800,
Ericew <ericew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> The Road to KDE 4: SVG Rendering in Applications
>>
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>> | Since KDE 4 development is in full swing with plans for a KDE 4.0
>> | release sometime later this year, I thought I'd put together a
>> | weekly piece entitled The Road to KDE 4. The idea is to have a
>> | short overview of one or two of the features that show progress
>> | in KDE 4. For my first issue, the goal is to show off some of
>> | the great SVG work that has taken place so far.
>> `----
>>
>> http://dot.kde.org/1167723426/
>>
>> Watch the before&after-type examples.
>
> Am I the only one that thinks the before pictures were better (
> especially the run dialog ). The SVG stuff just burns through screen
> realestate without adding any real benifit to the application. Short
> of the "OHHH SHINY" factor that seems to be driving a few windows users
> to Vista there is no decernible benifit.
>
There are several benefits to SVG for icons, widgets and such that don't
show in that example. For one, it's vector based, rather than pixel
based. So increasing or decreasing the resolution doesn't make the icons
<way too big> or <way too small>. It also makes it easy to add animated
flourishes to icons and widgets. Which can be nothing more than eye
candy, but can also offer visual clues to things like process state, and
focus, etc.
It's also shiny :)
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