[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2269) PNG for gui-stub

["Reinier Post via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:42:58AM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> This patch updates gui-stub by changing gfx_fileextension to have PNG be 
> the only graphics extension listed.
> 
> Although a small change, this is perhaps symbolic of the transition from 
> XPM to PNG.  If we stick with the paradigm that one format must be 
> standard, then this function (in the stub files) should have only one 
> entry.  GUIs may be able to accept other formats (XPM is still used for 
> backwards-compatability in many places), but is not strictly required.
> 
> Is this acceptable?  Should XPM be recommended for all GUIs to provide 
> more backwards-compatability?

I don't worry about PNG, but I do worry about 8 bit displays (which I
worked with until very recently).  This is why I would so much like
to have a scripted (!) conversion from PNG to XPM and back.
Then we could define the file format as "PNG that has been converted
to XPM and back with
ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/utils/graphics/png2xpm2png";

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Reinier