-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/2013 01:50 PM, h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: > Hmm, I guess this is something that crept in unintentially long > ago. XBoard was always designed so that it also could use bitmap > pieces if libXpm was not available. The pieces are now completely > the responsibilty of Cairo, however. > > XBoard uses a few black-and-white pixmaps unconditionally for the > icons in the headers of the panes in the Engine Output window, > though. I suppose this (i.e. setting the XtNleftBitmap in > DrawWidgetIcon()) could also have been done with bitmaps. At least, > we seem to do that for the checkmarking of menu items, albeit in a > fishy way. (The file with the check-mark image is a bm file and > read by ReadBitmap, but it is assigned to a variable declared as > Pixmap). > > So perhaps it would be better to convert these 7 remaining pixmaps > to bitmaps, and also use ReadBitmap in ReadIcon (xengineoutput.c) > to read them, to make XBoard truly xpm-independent? Unlike with the > pieces in the pre-Cairo era, the use of pixmaps has no advantage at > all here, as the icons are all monochrome (and should be, to be > accepted as XtNleftBitmap). > > The remaing xpm files in the pixmaps directory of the source tree > are desktop icons for file associations not accessed directly by > XBoard itself. Would it be better to convert those to PNG? > >
The freedesktop.org icon theme spec says that xpm is only supported due to backwards compatibility. So PNG seems more modern. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSKxUIAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWzEt4H/RKciI5SZ8M4to2Ih5Fa7jlM nHaEe4DZNMQzXyqyskVYFPMzz3cJ7tJ6At1xPyYpJPNElTB69vS5WWHrMZN4d0sJ v1mmQUhnrnD9LrvLwGXAbzFiWek5LCaU2KAdh3Y4toTl6IFGnRstrP4JeTAEvYg4 Di43i4NWv2p1ivVHO8z2SVNk3Uh0brqSdIbr0PW7i8GOQJFVs5FSTYx5x9Eb48G5 2rbLXp23gwESPzv8G3Ibvcg/gJp/XRgglOe1vF1PBS3Xe7FVWFQmxv7f2mlcjZPk WgY3S2Y1QDuQ+wtsHm1tIADI9S2n97k8+1YQ5ckW3onO1+evO+Ef9dEcCGLtbZU= =cNic -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
