Re: XPM images --- a thought

2007-07-02 Thread Bernhard Roider
I just saw that starting with version 4.2 qt supports svg icons. What about this format? Angus Leeming schrieb: LyX still uses XPM images in lib/images. The XPM format is plain text, so it still makes sense to store XPM files in the SVN repository because we get versioning history for free. Cl

Re: XPM images --- a thought

2007-06-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Because that is not needed either. We can just the frontend's Andre> resource system and would not need to ship individual files at Andre> all. >> I do not think this gains anything. Andre> Slightly quicker loading of individual p

Re: XPM images --- a thought

2007-06-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:59:29PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> We get the same information with any other file format. > > Andre> And as most of the PNGs are tiny storing full diffs would not > Andre> even be expensive

Re: XPM images --- a thought

2007-06-18 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> We get the same information with any other file format. Andre> And as most of the PNGs are tiny storing full diffs would not Andre> even be expensive either. Probably. >> However, in these days of a PNG-aware frontend, it does se

Re: XPM images --- a thought

2007-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:43:13PM -0700, Angus Leeming wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >>However, in these days of a PNG-aware frontend, it does seem strange > >>that we still ship these XPM files to our consumers. Here's a thought: > >>why don't we make the XPM -> PNG transformation part of the

Re: XPM images --- a thought

2007-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
Andre Poenitz wrote: However, in these days of a PNG-aware frontend, it does seem strange that we still ship these XPM files to our consumers. Here's a thought: why don't we make the XPM -> PNG transformation part of the build process and ship the resulting PNGs? Because that is not needed e

Re: XPM images --- a thought

2007-06-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:43:50PM -0700, Angus Leeming wrote: > LyX still uses XPM images in lib/images. The XPM format is plain text, > so it still makes sense to store XPM files in the SVN repository > because we get versioning history for free. Clearly, that's not the > case if we were to st

XPM images --- a thought

2007-06-16 Thread Angus Leeming
LyX still uses XPM images in lib/images. The XPM format is plain text, so it still makes sense to store XPM files in the SVN repository because we get versioning history for free. Clearly, that's not the case if we were to store a binary image format like PNG. However, in these days of a PNG-a