On 5 Nov 2013, at 5:47 PM, Jake Petroules wrote: > I do. Qt is by nature a cross platform framework, limiting support for ICNS > files only to OS X doesn't really make sense. > > What if you want to create a cross platform icon editor or some other app > that deals with image files? Or reuse your OS X icon(s) on Windows and other > platforms, saving time and space not having to create multiple versions of > everything? If you don't want to build the ICNS plugin, simply disable it > when you configure qtimageformats. It's a common and well known format and it > should be supported on all platforms Qt supports, just as ICO is supported on > OS X, Linux and others. > > I could understand refusing to include it in QtCore, but we're talking about > QtImageFormats here, the perfect place where something like this belongs. > -- > Jake Petroules > Chief Technology Officer > Petroules Corporation · www.petroules.com > Email: jake.petrou...@petroules.com > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> > wrote: > >> On terça-feira, 5 de novembro de 2013 08:57:12, Saether Jan-Arve wrote: >>> Is there any big benefits in having ICNS support on other platforms than >>> OSX? >> >> I don't think anyone wants ICNS outside OS X. But JPEG2000 might be useful.
ICNS could maybe be a useful cross-platform icon format as long as it doesn't have encumbrances. I assume not, since http://icns.sourceforge.net/ is LGPL. (Wikipedia says there are some JPEG2000 patents, but the committee has set up agreements so that it can be royalty-free in practice). It would be a neater alternative to the current naming convention on Linux (find /usr/share/icons -type d, each theme has a subdirectory and each resolution has a directory under that). Of course ubiquity would depend on at least one of the major desktops to adopt the practice; but even if not, it would still be nice to have one icon file per app as the icon's "source" and generate the others. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
