Less antiquated format for animations (was: Plan to fix icons [was: Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme])

[Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen iki fi>]

On 2/7/06, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> b) I believe we should pick a file format that did not already look
> antiquated when it was first employed in wanda the fish 5 years ago.
> Even gif animations look modern and featureful compared to this.

FWIW we chose to use ANIs for animations in maemo basically because it
supports 8-bit alpha *and* is already supported by gtk+. Making ANIs
themable similar to icons is pretty straightforwad, just add ANI to
the hardcoded list of formats icon theme currently supports.

Of course it's a bit of a stretch to call animations icons, but the
context of use is pretty much the same.


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Tommi Komulainen                                 tommi komulainen iki fi