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27.0.50; SVG transparency handling is inaccurate

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 36315 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pipcet <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#36315: 27.0.50; SVG transparency handling is inaccurate
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:04:57 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 03:04:22PM +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> The patch also removes the entry for gdk-pixbuf, so the situation is
> >> not getting worse.
> >> 
> >> FWIW, if we want to fix bug#35548 (use of rsvg_handle_write and
> >> rsvg_handle_close that are being deprecated), then we will need to add
> >> an entry for gio.
> >
> > We clearly disagree, and I already said I didn't think this is worth
> > an argument.  Feel free to do whatever you see fit.
> 
> As I understand this thread, moving to Cairo for SVG images fixes at
> least two problems: The transparency issue, and it also allows us to
> scale SVGs, both of which seem like nice additions.
> 
> There were a number of proposed patches in this thread -- which one is
> the one that we should apply here?

Possibly one from bug#40845... ;)

Although the one I provided there still needs work on the image cache.
-- 
Alan Third

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