Re: Multi-size, Multi-Bit depth icons

["Yo 'Ric Dude" <ericmit ix netcom com>]

raster@redhat.com wrote:

[snip all kinds of fun stuff here]

> ->  However, a quality option bitmap somewhere might be a Good Thing (resizing
> ->  alogrithim, dithering).  Perhaps even making an intelegent default decision
> ->  (based on image size)...
> 
> it alreday has several render types (quality levels) they include
> dithering on or of in 15/16bpp (yes imlib will dither using either
> floyd-steinberg or orderd in 15/16bpp if set to the correct render mode
> before rendering a pixmap - Enlightenment by default sets the "high
> quality" render mode on for this - so does the GNOME background
> properties). It also can have dithering turned off (for 8bp etc.) which
> is considerably faster but not as nice looking.

I think the gist here is a feature request along the lines of 
mipmapping.  Anti-aliasing a large pixmap down to icon size may
sound good in theory, but frequently, the end product is little
more than a blur.  Maybe allow caching of different "sizes" of 
the same image, and have imlib scale the closest/best match as 
needed?  

> ->      -=- James Mastros

> raster@rasterman.com

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