GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 168567
multiImage not supported
Last modified: 2017-12-13 17:25:56 UTC
Even though it's relatively new, I believe that SVG 1.2's multiImage and related elements as covered in section 12.3 of SVG 1.2 would be an extremely useful feature. Additionally, the work to get it implemented might overlap well with the work to get switch working.
i don't believe that we'll be adding this to rsvg anytime soon, as we have much more pressing things on our plate at the moment and no theme/icon artists have asked for good <image> support, much less <multiImage>. for future reference, multi-image's spec is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG12/media.html#multiImage-element
If I understand this correctly, multiImage enables me to provide a separate version of an image for lower resolutions. I consider myself an artist who would find this functionality very appealing if supported by both Inkscape and rsvg, since it would considerably simplify theme maintanence. I've written up a small blurb on why it's necersary to deal with lower resolution icons - http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Inkscape/SVG-NG.php
there's a hack in CVS that very loosly approximates multiImage's behavior
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