From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: color depth on Windows Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:29:56 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: <1192635597.792556.308640@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1192723671.672132.298440@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192779864 16666 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 07:44:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:44:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 09:44:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-forward.uio.no ([129.240.10.42]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IimWg-0001Sy-Uk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:44:10 +0200 Original-Received: from mail-mx8.uio.no ([129.240.10.38]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IimWZ-0002KD-V3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:44:03 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by mail-mx8.uio.no with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IimWI-0002PU-K8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:44:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IimTB-0002N1-Qd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1192779233 01 30591 pvxC1NgJbABf6+j 071019 07:33:53 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: b0NQBGZpoeeGd-Nobcku3xiI3aJv+wTUx3Trvdl4cvflFLY2zpQucg X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T; w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv, vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~, :3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/, ^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oQ3Yd8RjE8GsOX9JwA0Rg8W6v3U= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153045 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-UiO-SPF-Received: Received-SPF: pass (mail-mx8.uio.no: domain of gnu.org designates 199.232.76.165 as permitted sender) client-ip=199.232.76.165; envelope-from=help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; X-UiO-ClamAV-Virus: No X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.0, required=12.0, autolearn=disabled, none) X-UiO-Scanned: 50E09772E60BC3C24E285B22C098B22479031D3A X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 199.232.76.165 spam_score: 0 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 12 total 22206 max/h 41 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48550 Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 18 2007, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On 10/18/07, Maciej wrote: > >> Afterthought: I really wish one of the opening screens of Emacs made >> mention to the missing graphics libraries, in bold/red. IMHO it is a >> general expectation for programs to "just work" right out-of-the -box >> in Windows (whether this ideal is reached is another story), and >> properly colored toolbar icons would seem like a standard/necessary >> feature of any Windows program. As such, this lack of the XPM library >> causes the default Emacs binary to be not fully functional, and it >> would thus make sense to alert the user of the problem, and how to >> solve it (in a more explicit/direct way than an optional README file). > > I suggest you send that as a bug / feature request (with M-x > report-emacs-bug). There has been a discussion on including the DLLs in the next emacs-22.*-bin-i386.zip file in July, see . I don't know about the plans of Jason (IIRC, he has built the Windows binaries), i.e. if he wants to provide "emacs-22.1-a-bin-i386.zip" (including image DLLs) or do this for Emacs 22.2. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/