From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building with image support Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:21:50 +0200 Message-ID: <86sl3y2sm9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <86abq74fdy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193386964 6476 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2007 08:22:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Lilja Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 26 10:22:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IlKSi-000895-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:22:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlKSZ-00077g-Kp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlKST-00073Y-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlKSR-00071a-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlKSR-00071K-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from pc3.berlin.powerweb.de ([62.67.228.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlKSP-0006Ex-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (dslnet.212-29-44.ip210.dokom.de [212.29.44.210] (may be forged)) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA15937 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:22:15 +0200 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 22952 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2007 08:22:16 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (quinx.quinscape.de [127.0.0.1]) by quinx.quinscape.de (AvMailGate-2.1.3-2) id 22944-aoDJHn; Fr, 26 Okt 2007 10:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Oct 2007 08:22:16 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 58AA18F282; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:21:50 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eric Lilja's message of "Thu\, 25 Oct 2007 13\:16\:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.6.0.27; VDF: 7.0.0.136; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81755 Archived-At: Eric Lilja writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Eric Lilja 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 >> 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