-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:12:17PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >Sascha Silbe wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 07:51:54AM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: >> >>> I think the solution may be as simple as going back to GIF files. >> Please don't. Using vector graphics helps scaling Sugar to non-XO >> devices. > >We had a quick look today, and it seems Gdk.PixBuf.new_from_file(): > >http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk-pixbuf/stable/gdk-pixbuf-file-loading.html#gdk-pixbuf-new-from-file > > >With some instrumentation, it was apparent that it takes a long time >to render some SVG files. One in particular took half a second on a >laptop with a fast processor! A visual inspection of the problem >files reveals they mostly contain just a <path> with a few dozen >points in it. > >It seems GDK supports SVG through a loader plugin. Can we put the >blame on librsvg for this slowness? Are there alternative SVG >renderers we could try?
There's wxSVG, using libagg: http://www.wxsvg.org/ It has Python bindings, it seems. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk90a4ACgkQn7DbMsAkQLggzwCdFGg08Y5elpa5pdcCJs0PSana GaMAoIICmK17PJooP1+Rx0+Q9ctiIC9N =+ruK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
