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Re: [xougen] Immediate hacking


From: Herbert Snorrason
Subject: Re: [xougen] Immediate hacking
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 04:05:53 +0000
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Jonathan Walther wrote:
Default would be the crosshatch pattern; you could configure in a
LoadModule statement to load a module that can interpet PNG and SVG
images and display them; they would get to render the image into memory
just before the video mode was switched to, so the image display would
be instantaneous.
Sounds about right.

If someone wanted PNG support, they'd have it.  Those who didn't want
it, wouldn't have it.
Now the question is: Who won't want it?
PNG is in nearly every way *the* lossless raster format. Nearly everyone with X is going to have libpng available. It would, frankly, make sense to promote it to a default format for any and all bitmap graphics. Especially as we're supposed to be moving X into the future. (When the *HELL* is X12 due, anyway? ;)

Snowjobs and handcranks for everyone. :)
You lost me there.






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