[ubuntu-art] SVG icons and default colour scheme

[Chris Tooley]

I was browsing the icons for Breathe and something occurred to me, is
it possible to create SVGs with scripts in them? i.e. is the SVG
engine complete enough that adding some scripting, or adding a
scripting engine would be trivial?

The main reason I'm curious about this is that we could possibly
define SVGs with a default colour, then if the colour is different in
the system then we could change the colour - for instance, in the
current BreatheIconSet submissions, devices/computer has an orange
background on the screen. It looks great, and fits excellently with an
orange based theme, but what about a theme that is blue-colour based?
Wouldn't it be cool if we could just say "make this colour match (such
and such) colour defined in appearance settings"?

I suppose for colours, we wouldn't really need scripting but if we had
scripting in SVG it would open up an entire world of possibilities.

If this is well received I will put forth this suggestion on
brainstorm, if it isn't already. :)

Thanks,
~Chris