+1 to moving the plugins to qtimageformats. That¹s what we have the module for.
And I don¹t think moving ICNS is an issue neither, as long as we have a configure test in qtimageformats to detect whether we can compile the plugin. Cheers, Lars On 06/11/13 11:27, "Saether Jan-Arve" <[email protected]> wrote: >Actually I support moving qtjp2k to qtimageformats. > >However, I'm still not convinced if there is a need for ICNS plugin >outside OSX (It's not common on Windows, I have no idea about Linux). >As for your cross platform icon editor, why can't it use ICO files? >Although the ICO file format itself is somewhat weird, ICO files are much >more > likely to be supported on all platforms, since it won't rely on any >3rdparty library. It can also store PNG files, which Qt already have >built-in support for. > > >Jan Arve > > >From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of >Jake Petroules >Sent: 5. november 2013 17:48 >To: Thiago Macieira >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Development] Moving JP2 imageformat from qt-solutions to >qtimageformats > > > >I do. Qt is by nature a cross platform framework, limiting support for >ICNS files only to OS X doesn't really make sense. > > >What if you want to create a cross platform icon editor or some other app >that deals with image files? Or reuse your OS X icon(s) on Windows and >other platforms, saving time and space not having to create multiple >versions > of everything? If you don't want to build the ICNS plugin, simply >disable it when you configure qtimageformats. It's a common and well >known format and it should be supported on all platforms Qt supports, >just as ICO is supported on OS X, Linux and others. > > > >I could understand refusing to include it in QtCore, but we're talking >about QtImageFormats here, the perfect place where something like this >belongs. >-- > >Jake Petroules > >Chief Technology Officer > >Petroules Corporation · www.petroules.com <http://www.petroules.com> > >Email: [email protected] > > > > > > > > >On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> >wrote: > > > > >On terça-feira, 5 de novembro de 2013 08:57:12, Saether Jan-Arve wrote: > > >Is there any big benefits in having ICNS support on other platforms than >OSX? > >I don't think anyone wants ICNS outside OS X. But JPEG2000 might be >useful. > >-- >Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com <http://intel.com> > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center >_______________________________________________ >Development mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Development mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
