From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: imagemagic in image-mode and image-dired-thumbnail-mode? Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:06:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83ehb052k1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a9lp8uxk.fsf@gmail.com> <87ehb1bbvf.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373832471 6070 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2013 20:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: spinuvit@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 14 22:07:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UySaG-00074I-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 22:07:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48188 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UySaF-00062T-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UySaA-00062N-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UySa6-0008G4-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:64726) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UySa6-0008Fs-JO; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MPX00L00ZP8T300@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:06:38 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MPX00LRAZV1PA40@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:06:38 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161886 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:50:42 +0200 > Cc: Vitalie Spinu , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > But since the other formats don't do scaling, they're aren't very > user-friendly. Nobody wants to look at a tiny corner of a picture. > (Except under special circumstances.) The default of all the Emacs > image-viewing modes should be to rescale down to the frame or window > size. And only imagemagick does that. How about taking out the ImageMagick code that does the scaling and rolling it into Emacs? How hard can that be? Or maybe there's some other library out there that we could use to roll our own image scaling code. I don't believe for a moment that ImageMagick is the only one that is able to pull that. Point is, if the main reason to want ImageMagick is that we want scaled images, why not have _just_ scaled images, and leave ImageMagick to its enthusiasts?