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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Support for MNG icons still present?
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde () carewolf ! com>
Date:       2003-07-21 10:58:36
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On Monday 21 July 2003 02:41, Greg Day wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering if the support for MNG (animated on mouseover) icons
> was still present in CVS, as I have not been able to make it work.  I know
> my libmng library and Qt-mng plugin are working, since other apps use them
> (Kopete's 'connecting' animations).
>
> But I remember seeing animated trash/folders/some mimetypes in Konqueror,
> KDesktop, and Kicker on some distributions (SuSE and Mandrake).  How does
> this work?  From my understanding, it seems all one needs to do is place an
> mng of the same basename in the same location as the png, and it will be
> used automatically, but this doesn't happen.  It just uses the png.  And I
> know the MNG itself is not corrupt, because I can (after scaling it down to
> 16x16) use it as one of Kopete's 'connecting' icons.
>
> If I hardcode the .desktop entry to have "Icon=foo.mng" then it only shows
> the first frame of the MNG, and doesn't animate it.
>
> Has something changed, or am I going about this all wrong?
>
> I have checked with the icons kcmodule and made sure Animated is checked
> for "Panel" and "Desktop" and made double-sure in my kdeglobals that
> Animated=true
>
There are two implementations, one in libkonq and one in kicker-buttons.
I havent tested libkonq (KDesktop and Konqueror), but the one in kicker should 
still work. You just need to enable animation and deactivate zooming.

If it still doesnt work. Send me your test case and I'll try to fix it.

`Allan
 
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