* bug#651: suggestion: replace xpm images format by png
@ 2008-08-05 13:52 xah lee
2019-09-26 18:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: xah lee @ 2008-08-05 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
Summary: Suggesting that xpm format images used in emacs be replaced
by png.
Detail:
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.
Xah
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* bug#651: suggestion: replace xpm images format by png
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
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-09-26 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xah lee; +Cc: 651
xah lee <xah@xahlee.org> writes:
> Summary: Suggesting that xpm format images used in emacs be replaced
> by png.
>
> Detail:
>
> 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.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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* bug#651: suggestion: replace xpm images format by png
2019-09-26 18:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-09-26 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-09-26 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: xah, 651
> 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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