Re: [Gnumed-devel] artwork handling

[Karsten Hilbert]

> >GNUmed uses icons. These icons can either be *.png images (any directly
> >supported by wxwidgets directly) or a *.png image converted to a *.py file
> >by img2py.
> Personally I loathe this practice and would much prefer all client icons 
> under client/bitmaps as separate files.
I tend to second that.

> But, like so many things, having to support both is far worse than either 
> alone,
Agree.

> Wait, there *is* an advantage: if we stop scanning client/wxpython/gui for 
> modules too, the client now has no need to hunt on the local filesystem for 
> its own 
> directory once PYTHONPATH is set up, this makes the packager's job slightly 
> easier.
A nice argument ! I would think, however, that it is common
practice to have a application data directory somewhere where
we could store those images.

Karsten
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