Feature Request | Support for svgs

[thomascft]

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[LGFae]

Unlikely to be implemented anytime soon (if at all), as the image crate doesn't seem to have (or plan to have) support for it.

[LGFae]

Update: if I manage to finish up #52, doing this wouldn't be so bad. We could use the resvg crate for it. I won't make any guarantees, however, since using svgs for wallpapers strikes me as very niche. If it makes things too complicated, I probably won't do it.

EDIT: also note resvg only supports very basic svg. So, no animations or events.

[EdJoPaTo]

SVGs can be rendered pixel perfect for monitors and will always look sharp. Thats my main reason to prefer SVG wallpaper when possible/available. Gnome also delivers their wallpapers as SVG or WebP.

[tralph3]

Just leaving a comment to say that I'd like this to be implemented too. I want to use SVGs as background images since they can be very easily modified with scripts to change their color palette, allowing me to have a set of backgrounds that match my overall colorscheme.

[Stetsed]

I don't want to clog up this channel but I too would love to see SVG support.

[LGFae]

I was just want to say that reading these comments I have been convinced that it would be nice to have SVG support in swww for a variety of reasons.

Right now I have my hands full with the sctk 0.17 rewrite, but I think as soon as that is released, and we fix any weird bugs that might arise from it, I will probably look into this.

[N0tAI]

If this is something you guys want to have right now I wrote a small shell script to handle it for myself, it should only require librsvg and a shell.

Works on dash and doesn't do anything advanced so I'd reckon almost any sh compatible shell can run it.

#!/bin/sh

WIDTH='1920px'
HEIGHT='1080px'
OUTPUTS=''

[ -n "$2" ] && WIDTH="$2"
[ -n "$3" ] && HEIGHT="$3"
[ -n "$4" ] && OUTPUTS="$4"

[ -f "$1" ] && rsvg-convert "$1" --width $WIDTH --height $HEIGHT | swww img $([ -n "$OUTPUTS"] && echo "--outputs $OUTPUTS") -

Feel free to use it and make it your own
(the first parameter is required (all others are optional) and must be a path to an svg file, the second but is the width in any rsvg-convert supported value, the third is the height, and the 4th is a comma separated list of outputs to display on)

[loserMcloser]

Gnome also delivers their wallpapers as SVG or WebP.

Gnome now delivers their wallpapers in SVG and JXL formats; it would be nice if swww supported both... :)