[Cuis] Did we drop PNG support?

[Casey Ransberger]

I don't care for JPEG, *ever.* For the record. My thinking was PNG support
and that's it, but I can see now why you decided against using it
(compression.) I didn't know that BMP actually supported transparency. Yes,
that will do nicely (I don't care much for GIF either, though sometimes the
animated ones can be kind of a fun retro laugh.)

I'm okay with getting rarely used image formats out of the core of the
system, FWIW. I worry with having this stuff outside the image we usually
develop in that we'll break stuff and not notice it though. Maybe soonish
would be a good time to do some kind of continuous integration set up. That
would help to ensure external packages keep working. An adventure for
another day though.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:47 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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