Public bug reported:
If you download an image off say, Wikipedia, it's probably a .png. When
this comes to your computer and you open it with eog, by default it will
have a horrible checkered pattern on it (because the background for
these images is 'transparent') and this checkered pattern makes things
totally unreadable (e.g. chemistry reaction mechanisms).
The solution is to view the image with eog and go to Edit -> Preferences
and set the transparent parts to be a custom colour (white) to have a
white background.
I propose that by default, the transparent parts should be set to appear
white so images get a nice, standard white background which makes things
LEGIBLE rather than the current checkered style which isn't helping
anyone.
(What a nightmare for users trying to open a PNG and being met by a
checkered pattern that they swear wasn't there when they downloaded it.
I went through quite some time wondering if i should convert the PNG to
another format like SVG to get rid of it, but the problem is on the
image viewing end, not the image itself. I shudder to think how many
people have hit this problem but not known what to do and given up.)
** Affects: eog (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1239260
Title:
Set transparent parts of images to white by default, not 'check
pattern'.
Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
If you download an image off say, Wikipedia, it's probably a .png.
When this comes to your computer and you open it with eog, by default
it will have a horrible checkered pattern on it (because the
background for these images is 'transparent') and this checkered
pattern makes things totally unreadable (e.g. chemistry reaction
mechanisms).
The solution is to view the image with eog and go to Edit ->
Preferences and set the transparent parts to be a custom colour
(white) to have a white background.
I propose that by default, the transparent parts should be set to
appear white so images get a nice, standard white background which
makes things LEGIBLE rather than the current checkered style which
isn't helping anyone.
(What a nightmare for users trying to open a PNG and being met by a
checkered pattern that they swear wasn't there when they downloaded
it. I went through quite some time wondering if i should convert the
PNG to another format like SVG to get rid of it, but the problem is on
the image viewing end, not the image itself. I shudder to think how
many people have hit this problem but not known what to do and given
up.)
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