Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
>> I would suggest to go the other way round. Simply cause the
>> current icons are GIF you'd have limited colours no alpha
>> and so on it seems better to design them in a more suitable
>> format. svg would be ideal as one could zoom them to any
>> size, but PNG in proper sizes will do.
>
> TK does not handle SVG.
I know. But I can easily convert svg to png and if one designs it from
scratch it seems advisable to do the scalable version from the start.
> Some extensions exist but are either
> incomplete or no longer supported. Tk 8.6 will include PNG support,
> without the need of installing an external lib. So the best is to wait
> for Tk 8.6 do be out and wide spread. Then to switch all icons to PNG.
The current code, I commited today, checks for existence of the lib and
only then enables png icons. If the lib is not there only the gif
versions show up. Its done the same way as for the piece sets. This is
compatible as for now and we can drop the gif-versions later on. Also:
not all gif icons are bad, we have a bunch of pretty nice ones which
were designed with view colours in mind.
(BTW: compatiblity was also the reason to set default piece set to alpha
and not to Merida 1/2.)
Additionally, it will take some time till Tk 8.6 is spread wide enough
to convert the whole project to it. (Only now the first literature on
8.5 appears on the market, btw.) I hope we don't jump onto it as soon as
it appears as this will rise quite some other complications on the users
side than a not so nice icons.
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