Re: ICNS as default format

[Fred Kiefer]

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.

Just to quote from that file:
/*
  The following code is a drop in replacement for libicns. It may be used
  when the library is not available or unsuited due to its licence 
(Currently
  GPL 2). This code was mostly build based on the documentation found at
  http://icns.sourceforge.net/apidocs.html. It also includes icns decoding
  ideas based on code in mySTEP.
  Only limited formats are implemented and some errors still exist.
 */


Fred