From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: xah@xahlee.org, 651@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#651: suggestion: replace xpm images format by png
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:36:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a7aqlxbd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftkikjph.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:15:22 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:15:22 +0200
> Cc: 651@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > In emacs, it seems the default image format is xpm.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap
> >
> > For example, the emacs logo, widget graphics, all seems to be xpm
> > format at dir “etc/images/”.
> >
> > The xpm image format is some 19 years old tech based on ascii text,
> > very bulky. png or svg are perhaps good candidates.
>
> The suggestion is 11 years old, but I still don't think this is
> something that we're going to do. Emacs may be build without support
> for these other image formats, and it's still nice to show at least some
> icons. So I'm closing this bug report.
Especially since we nowadays display SVG, PNG, XPM, or PBM, when
available and in that order.
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2008-08-05 13:52 bug#651: suggestion: replace xpm images format by png xah lee
2019-09-26 18:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-26 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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