On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:48:07PM -0400, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 15:30 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
Initially it might be easier and faster to use gdkpixpub/librsvg to render the SVG in the About.
Unfortunately librsvg has very buggy rendering.
Note that this appears to be improving, and should largely resolve itself with cairo becoming the librsvg backend.
Since people usually author about screens and icons for us in Inkscape, it would be very bad for things to look fine when edited in Inkscape, but then get all funky when used for Inkscape's own icons -- or worse the about window.
Using Inkscape's renderer to render the About screen makes sense since we often encourage people to create screens that show off the latest and greatest features.
Also, to echo Alan's point about the about screen being useful for determining the version, I think it would be extremely useful if it included more than just the version number. I.e., the About screen may say 0.41, but the user could have a nightly build installed, or a pre-release of 0.42, or who knows what...
Bryce