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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: "Elijah G." <eg642616@gmail.com>
Cc: 71180@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#71180: [ELPA Feature Request] Package thumbnail
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 19:41:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5k3dtdo.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86cyp4gfkb.fsf@gmail.com> (Elijah G.'s message of "Wed, 29 May 2024 21:10:44 -0600")

"Elijah G." <eg642616@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> The issue is that .gif is still a bitmap format, so we wouldn't have the
>> advantage of scaling that vector graphics give us.
>>
>> As this is a feature that would only be added in a future version of
>> Emacs, we could start another feature request to support SVG animations
>> as well, perhaps even a way to record Emacs into such a animation.
>>
>> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_animation for a few examples.
>
> I think it would not be hard to make it (as far as how Emacs supports
> SVG), i just thought in .gif files for being more easy to implement than
> animated svg (despite being rasterized and perhaps losing more quality).

Well yes, because animated Gifs are already supported, while animated SVGs
are not.

>> That seems like the screenshot is part of the README file?  I would have
>> imagined them before or after the file, perhaps even in a different buffer.
>
> Maybe something like this?
>
>    Requires: emacs-28.1, compat-29.1.4.4
>    Keywords: faces tools matching
>    [See Screenshot]
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> And when the user clicks it pop up a buffer with the screenshot,
> similar in how Synaptic does.

Right, I think that would be good.  Perhaps we could even allow for more
than just one screenshot + some captions.

-- 
	Philip Kaludercic on peregrine





  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-02 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-24 22:30 bug#71180: [ELPA Feature Request] Package thumbnail Elijah G.
2024-05-26  9:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-05-26 11:01   ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-05-27 18:08     ` Elijah G.
2024-05-28  6:21       ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-05-30  3:10         ` Elijah G.
2024-06-02 19:41           ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2024-05-27  2:15   ` Elijah G.

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