On 08/11/2009 12:21 AM, Martin Sourada wrote: > Well, with complex SVGs you cannot get the same rendering speed as with > PNG. In my experience what makes rendering slow is various effects, > especially blur, large amount of objects, especially layered one over > the other. AFAIK xml parsing is the fastest of it all... Also, SVG > rendering capabilities in gnome are not very good, especially objects > with applied blur are mis-rendered as well objects using masks, fonts > are hinted differently than in inkscape, which often results in > different texts dimensions, which makes it hard to do proper layout, ... > > IMHO, we are not in state where we could afford using anything other > than PNG or really simple SVG as our default background. My experience is the same, so I agree with you point, SVG rendering in the GNOME desktop is not mature enough for the task, using PNG is a better option for now. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team