From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Lilja Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building with image support Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:33:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86abq74fdy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86sl3y2sm9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193394826 31832 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2007 10:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:33:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 26 12:33:48 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 1IlMVf-0003VK-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:33:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlMVV-0007MA-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlMVQ-0007JH-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlMVP-0007HI-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlMVO-0007Gn-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlMVO-00086d-6U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:33:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IlMVH-0004Je-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:33:23 +0000 Original-Received: from nl-216-247.netlogon.liu.se ([130.236.216.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:33:23 +0000 Original-Received: from mindcooler by nl-216-247.netlogon.liu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:33:23 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl-216-247.netlogon.liu.se User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <86sl3y2sm9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:81765 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > 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. > I see, do you know if it has any effect on windows? When I'm using GNU/Linux, I use the binary supplied with my distribution. I don't know how to build it on that platform yet. I will most likely try to learn that if I continue to use the cvs trunk version. - Eric