On Wednesday 18 May 2005 15:43, Silvan wrote:
> 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.

Um, are you offering to do the real transparency and proper 
antialiasing?

> I'm assuming we use XPMs for mostly historical reasons

Yes.  The only functional reason we use them is that it's handy to be 
able to edit them in a text editor (in fact that's how I made them).  
XPM was probably the more common format back then too.

Because of that faint advantage of XPMs, I think it's not worth the 
bother to convert them into PNGs that are then going to remain exactly 
the same as the original XPMs.  It's absolutely worth the bother if we 
can get PNGs with proper alpha transparency out of it -- that would be 
great.  And it's marginally worth the bother if there's even a vague 
expectation that having icons in PNG form might make someone more 
inclined to fix them for proper transparency later.


Chris


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