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: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:38:22 +0300 Message-ID: <838v184ev5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a9lp8uxk.fsf@gmail.com> <87ehb1bbvf.fsf@gmail.com> <83ehb052k1.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3ksajkf.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373863147 6769 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2013 04:39:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:39:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vitalie Spinu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 15 06:39:07 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 1UyaYz-0005iQ-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:39:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyaYy-000739-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34775) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyaYs-000734-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyaYo-0004ri-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:42858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UyaYo-0004rX-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MPY00C00NGMQ800@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:38:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MPY00C8SNJXQH00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:38:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87k3ksajkf.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:161893 Archived-At: > From: Vitalie Spinu > Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:16 +0200 > > > 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? > > ImageMagick is very good with transparency. From what I can see standard > decoders don't handle it at all. Isn't it good to have one tool and > delegate all the work to it? It's good if it works. Evidently, it doesn't in this case.