From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16022 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2004 03:33:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15923 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2004 03:33:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web13122.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.174.126) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 12 Dec 2004 03:33:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 80448 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Dec 2004 03:33:34 -0000 Message-ID: <20041212033334.80446.qmail@web13122.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.164.122.15] by web13122.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:33:34 PST Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:17:00 -0000 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: Reduced Image Quality for 32x32 Pixel Units To: Eric McDonald , mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Cc: Elijah Meeks , xconq7@sources.redhat.com, xconq-hackers@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <41BBB053.2030402@phy.cmich.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01474.txt.bz2 > > Another possible way of dealing with it might be > to change the APIs so > > that the interface can request from the kernel > "Give me an image somewhere > > in this range of sizes, and try to avoid scaling > if possible." Well, as I'm loathe to cut into developer's time, I can offer a rather work-intensive solution that can be handled on my end. Scaling the images using a true graphics package (Gimp, in my case) has proven to be, in my experience, a time-consuming task that tends to produce poor results. However, even for the several hundred images in question, I can put them in 44x44 pixel squares with more blank space. This would be time-consuming, also, but it would be my time taken up and not the time of Eric or Matthew, whose time I consider more valuably spent pursuing other goals. If a solution within the code is relatively straightforward, then by all means do so, otherwise let me know and I'll plug in all those images (And in doing so far as to create a universal GIF template for the future, which may not speed up anything processor-wise but will go toward making any artists job a little easier in the future). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com