Re: [BLUG] Editable image repository? (was Transform Ubuntu to OS-X)

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Gillis, Chad wrote:
>
> Quoting Barry Schatz <sorbetninja@gmail.com>:
>> Other sites worth checking out are gnome-look.org and kde-look.org.
>
> Those are some neat sites. Along slightly similar lines, has anyone
> ever come across a central repository like that of explicitly
> openly-shared images in an editable format, for example in GIMP's .xcf
> format or in .svg? It could be useful if someone wanted to use a
> picture for a project but modify it somewhat. For example if you knew
> you wanted to draw something with a "global community" theme you could
> start with someone else's drawing of the Earth, remove the parts you
> don't like, and build on top of it.

I wanted to state that with KDE 4, KDE's SVG support is now as good as
GNOME's SVG support.

This means that *both* KDE and GNOME should now support SVG and SVGZ
(gzip-compressed SVG) background images. While these may be few and
far between on the *look.org sites right now, with any luck we'll see
more of them. While most background images are based on photo-like
images, not all of them are, and if they're distributed as SVG, you get
all resolutions (within an aspect ratio, at least) in a single file.
(It also makes it easy for J. Random User to tweak the file for their
particular aspect ratio by simply by changing the size of the background
component.)

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