Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[Jan Djärv]

address@hidden skrev 2010-07-14 18.17:
> Chong Yidong<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu<address@hidden>  writes:
> >
> > > An alternative way to do some of them would be generating and
> > > rendering SVG images dynamically.  That is possible even now, and more
> > > standard and less platform specific than cairo bindings.
> >
> > I've been told that librsvg is not useable on Windows, which is
> > unfortunate.  Otherwise, it would be nice to standardize on SVG for
> > graphical elements in Emacs.
>
> On that note, it seems imagemagick simply links to librsvg for its svg
> support.
>
> But is librsvg really not usable on windoze? Gnome seem to provide
> binaries anyway:
>
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/librsvg/2.26/

AFAIK, it uses cairo for rendering and is dependent on lot of other (Gnome) 
libraries.  They are available at the same place, but I don't know exactly 
which libraries.

        Jan D.