Re: Building with image support

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> My question is this: What am I missing without png support, without
>>> tiff support etc? I only work with text with emacs, 90 percent of
>>> the time programming. My original wish has been fullfilled, which
>>> was nice looking toolbars on windows, but I wanted to know if it
>>> might be a good idea to build emacs with support for the other image
>>> formats as well. But if it doesn't matter to what I do with emacs, I
>>> don't want to complicate my "build environment" unnecessarily.
>>
>> You can use Emacs to browse/view images and directories containing
>> them, and there is something like
>> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html> if you
>> are using LaTeX for writing texts.
>>
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, David. If I get more serious in my attempt
> to learn latex, I will most definetly look into latex preview mode and
> try to build emacs with the image format support it needs for
> that. But as far as the "UI" is concerned, xpm is sufficient, right?

PNG icons supposedly look quite more refined on GTK+, partly due to
better transparency support.

-- 
David Kastrup