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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: animated icons path
From:       Bill Soudan <wes0472 () rit ! edu>
Date:       2000-04-20 16:24:35
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Derek Spears wrote:

> > The animated MNG should be stored in the same place as where the normal
> > icons are stored.  I think loadIcon() should load the first frame of the
> > icon, so that the user can still select the animated icon using the
> > iconloader dialog. For loading a movie, we can introduce a new method,
> > loadAnimated() or loadMovie() that will return the animated icon in some
> > form.
> 
> Is using a nonstandard format (MNG) a good thing or a neccessary evil?
> Just from a compatibility with other tools (gimp, ee, etc...) it would seem
> to shut a lot of things out.

MNG is definitely poised to become a good, open standard - it grew out of
the PNG project.  My educated guess is that within a few years it'll be at
the same level of support that PNG is now.  PNG had no problem
establishing itself, probably thanks to Unisys, and I expect MNG will
follow a similar path.  Let's help it along and use it in KDE :)

More information: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/mng/

Besides this, it just makes sense to use MNG, since KDE already uses PNG
over GIF.  Not to mention there's no seedy corporation that will silently
allow it to become a standard and then suddenly decide to start charging
for licensing :(

Bill

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