On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:31:19PM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:44:41AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2002 07:37:07 +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > > > > > > I think it will be good that fvwm can load png images. The reason > > > is that png is a good format and that there is a lot of icons and > > > mini-icons in such format in the hd of a lot of machine (GNOME > > > and KDE version > 1 use this format). > > > > > > One possibility is to use an image library as imlib2. The advantage > > > is that if we do so fvwm will be able to load image in various > > > format (as jpg, tiff ...etc). Nevertheless, I do not think that this > > > is a good idea as IMHO we only need to add support for png image > > > and we do not need all the goodies of an image library. I mean > > > that I do not think that fvwm should depends on a given image > > > library (and we should write ourself our image goodies functions) > > > and then it will be absurd to use an image library for just loading > > > png images. > > > > I think imlib is installed on a lot modern systems. > > Yes, but here my objection: > - imlib is no more under development, it is replaced by imlib2. > - imlib is not used any more in GNOME (version >=2) and has a gtk+ > replacement in gtk+-2 (gtk-pixbuf or something like that). > - About imlib2: it seems to me that it is now a pure E library. > So it seems to me that imlib will progressively disappear and that > imlib2 will not have the same universality than imilib. > On the other hand libpng is used by every body.
SOunds like libpng is the way to go. > > But using only libpng > > (that is a requirement for imlib anyway) to load png images is good too. > > Supporting gif and jpg images would be good, but png is more important. > > Yes, we may write gif and jpg loader (with libgif and libjpg). Gif and jpeg have a very low priority in my eyes. There are hardly andy icons in these formats on the net. The only module that would really profit is FvwmBacker - but FvwmBacker can easily use e.g. xv to display such images in the background. > > > So if there is no objection I will write a png loader (using > > > libpng) for fvwm (with the help of imlib2 source code). > > > > I am all for adding png support. > > You will have it in less than 7 days. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
