This is the directory with Inkscape's stock patterns. They are

stored in the defs of the SVG document patterns.svg. Within

Inkscape, they can be accessed via the pattern fill option on either

Fill or Stroke tab of the Fill & Stroke dialog (Ctrl+Shift+F). You

can also create a new pattern from selected objects by the Objects

to Pattern command.

Internationalization

This file is internationalized the same way as share/filters/filters/svg

The i18n.py script called from the makefile will extract strings from

patterns.svg into a patterns.svg.h file. Intltool is then able to extracts

these strings just like from normal .h files.