On Feb 20, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:

Right now Inkscape uses the discrete SVG icons. I timed "hot" startup (using

"time inkscape --verb FileQuit" twice and noting the second run) and it

seems that it's actually faster (9.281s) than using icons.svg (9.799s),

probably because the RSVG renderer which renders the SVG icons in Gnome is

faster than ours.

Oh, but this will break a main intent we have.

Since the SVG spec does not allow for a multi-image resource in a standard way, we're implementing that ourselves in a work-around. RSVG not only does not support all the SVG aspects that Inkscape does, it definitely will not support a multi-image workaround.

That has been a main issue pushed by the icon authors out there, so will be a major setback.