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git clone https://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/libsvgtiny-pixbuf.git
A library that allows GTK to load SVG files without using librsvg. The main reason you would want to do that is because librsvg is a security nightmare. Nowadays librsvg is also less portable and more onerous to build than when it was written in C.
It's using GNU autotools, so run ./configure &&
make to build it, and then make install to copy
the files where they belong.
That's half the battle; the other half is letting GTK know to use it. GTK maintains a cached list of known pixbuf loaders in the file given by GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE, which defaults to a system-specific location. To generate that cache, in general you have to run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders with GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR set to the directory where your pixbuf loaders live. But if you are using the default system GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE and the default system GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR, then all you have to do is run
root # gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
as the superuser.
The libsvgtiny-pixbuf build system does its best to find the system
pixbuf loader directory and to install itself there. So long as the
--prefix and --libdir used to configure
libsvgtiny-pixbuf are the same as those used to install gdk-pixbuf,
you should be OK. The command
user $ pkg-config --variable gdk_pixbuf_moduledir gdk-pixbuf-2.0
/usr/lib64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders
will show you the proper location (the output above is not necessarily valid on anyone else's system).
In addition to the pixbuf loader, we also install a GTK thumbnailer
entry, libsvgtiny.thumbnailer. Here also the
build system tries to do the right thing, but the
--datadir used to configure libsvgtiny-pixbuf must be
the same as the --datadir that was used to configure
your GTK. Usually they wind up in
/usr/share/thumbnailers. I'm not aware of an
environment-variable override.
There are many features in librsvg that haven't made it into libsvgtiny yet. The rendering simply isn't as good. Some of your icons will look weird.
You can email them to me at michael@orlitzky.com, but SVG rendering issues should be reported on the libsvgtiny bug tracker.