Re: ICNS as default format

[Bluna Ratimonkey]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09.06.2011 01:22, Gregory Casamento wrote:
>>
>> Just a quick thought....
>>
>> I'm wondering if we shouldn't consider using icns as the default for
>> icons.  Once the icns implementation is completed it should, in
>> theory, adjust to the optimal resolution for the given size.
>
> Not sure what the benefit would be. The tiff format can also hold multiple
> images at once and the tiff library we use is more common than the icns one.
> And our own icns loading code is rather incomplete. I should know that
> having written most of it.

Gimp for instance doesn't support multiple layer tiff. Krita seems to
do that though. Can't we just use/invent any format that pack a set of
images in tar.gz and also a plist?
Let's make them have .wtf extensions.

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