True it would be great if Panda supports the svg file format. However, I’ve spent many hours searching for a good svg library that can render svg images. This is not an easy thing to do since the svg standard has become quite complex. My hope is that one day the Qt framework fully supports the svg standard. Then I can remove the inkscape dependency. That would help.
B.t.w. the source code is not yet uploaded on sourceforge, however it is included in the installer. So run the installer and you can check the source code. I’ve also added a sample project.