Vlada and I have been having a serious discussion about switching over 
many/most/all of our icons to PNG.  Most especially the notation editor 
icons, but many others could benefit from real transparency and proper 
antialiasing too.

Looking in /usr/share, PNG icons outnumber XPM icons about 13:1, and of the 
2,000-odd XPM icons on my system, slightly more than half of them belong to 
Rosegarden itself.

I'm assuming we use XPMs for mostly historical reasons, and that we have 
continued to do so for so long owing primarily to the monumentally tedious 
nature of switching them out.

Anyway, we're willing to do the drudge work here, and I intend to switch out 
(although not change stylistically in most cases) most or all of the icons in 
the course of fiddling on the GUI revamp branch I'm working on, and then 
merge everything on into HEAD in due course.

I just figured I should put notice of this intention out there in case there's 
some stodgy conservative objection which needs to be raised first.  It would 
be a pity to do all this work and then have it shot down.

-- 
Michael McIntyre  ----   Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek;  registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/


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