Re: Emacs-23 release branch

[Jason Rumney]

On 10/03/2010 12:09, Chong Yidong wrote:
> * TTZ's experiment with SVG progress bar, abstracted into a general
>    Emacs library for embedded graphics.
>    If we can do this, I would also like to seriously consider switching
>    to SVG as the default image library, replacing our use of xpm (e.g.,
>    the inline xpm images that we use for certain buffer widgets should be
>    turned into SVG).
>    

Sounds good, but currently our implementation of SVG is tied heavily to 
GTK, which makes using it on other platforms difficult and bug prone due 
to all the dependencies that get pulled in, not all of which have been 
ported well.

If we make some effort to support the cairo backend of librsvg as an 
alternative to the gdk_pixbuf backend, then it might help.