[Cuis] Did we drop PNG support?

[H. Hirzel]

Hello
I prefer to have PNG in Graphics-Files-Additional.pck.st to maintain a
small kernel. And as Juan writes JPEG might be moved there too.

--Hannes


On 12/20/13, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
> Hi Casey,
>
> On 12/18/2013 2:00 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>> …or did it end up in one of the external packages?
>>
>> I've been goofing with InkScape and thinking about trying my hand at
>> some new icons. I suppose I could bring them in via JPEG, but I like
>> having transparency for these kinds of things, and I don't seem to
>> recall JPEG ever supporting transparency.
>>
>> Any advice?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Casey
>>
>
> Please _never_ use JPEG for icons and stuff. JPEG is only good for
> photographs. You can use BMP, that is lossless. Or just load
> Graphics-Files-Additional.pck.st
>
> I would have liked to have PNG in the kernel, but it uses Compression.
> Maybe JPEG should be moved to the external package too. BMP is dog
> simple, and is enough for a very basic kernel.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
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