From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: image size limit?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:20:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ek6hitq3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ek6hdhul.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:35:46 +0200")
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> RMS:
>> But I don't think this limit should be absolute. I think it should be
>> specified as a multiple of the frame height and width, and it should
>> be given as a floating point number. I'd suggest 2.0 as the default
>> for this ratio.
>
> Stefan:
>> All this to say that I think choosing the maximum image size based on
>> display-pixel-width and display-pixel-height would be preferable than using
>> frame size.
>
> If you use image slicing, you can in principle show a small area of a
> much larger image.
>
> I don't see how that relates to the dimensions of the frame or display.
>
> But it definitely sounds better to scale according to display size
> rather than frame size (but round up to minimum size e.g. 4096x4096).
It sounds to me like the limits should be configurable, with a
somewhat conservative default. Applications where larger dimensions
might be appropriate (image viewers with provisions for panning, i.e.)
can allow them in their own buffers using buffer-local settings of the
variables limiting the size.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-11 20:32 image size limit? Chong Yidong
2005-10-11 21:19 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-12 16:24 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-12 17:40 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-13 20:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-14 13:02 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-15 16:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-15 18:33 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-16 17:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-16 22:27 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-17 17:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-17 21:56 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-18 3:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-18 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-19 8:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-19 12:20 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-10-19 12:45 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-19 20:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-19 12:51 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-19 20:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-19 21:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-19 13:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-20 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-19 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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