On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 04:08:28 GMT "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> 
>       Nathan wrote:
> 
> > >       I don't think there's a need to require that 'thumbnailing'
> > > must involve a specific means for storing some standard image
> > > format somewhere.. one may not want or need to store anything
> > > ...
> > 
> > At the very least, it should be a negotiable process where clients
> > can specify the result formats they can support and the thumbnailer
> > can select from those supported formats. A fallback requirement of
> > png or some other standard format would be reasonable. This would
> > allow us to support jpg, mpeg, edje, or whatever format we choose,
> > and any clients that also support those formats could benefit.
> 
>       I suppose a minimal 'standard' format for animated images
> would be good. This is something that doesn't seem as well-established
> as say png/jpg are for static images.. eg. things like mng/mpeg don't
> seem too widely used by the 'major' toolkits to provide say animated
> icons or whatnot. Animated svgs are lacking as well, but even if used
> eventually, it's likely that one may want to save 'thumbs' of them as
> animated raster images.

mpg is very widely used - but it support no alpha channel. mng doesn't support
lossy comrpession to the extend mpeg, xvid, ogg etc. do (it supports jpeg
compression with alpha - that's about it). mng just never took off.

>       One thing that isn't really dome in e, but could be, is to
> let edjes that correspond to backgrounds provide 'large&small' thumbs
> in the edje itself.. ie. have two additional groups, say "thumb_large"
> and "thumb_small", that give a (tweened) image representation of the
> thumnailed main background. Thus, the edje already contains the two
> generic fdo-'sized' thumbs, in the edje bg file itself - and thus
> no need to generate the things and save them to some other file,
> at least not for the two fdo-'sizes'.

it COULD but then the definer has to create these, include them AND keep them
up to date - which invariably is never done. :(

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