Graeme.McCaffery_at_astro.cf.ac.uk (Graeme McCaffery) writes:
> this is just a thought I had last night (it may be really stupid!!!)
>
> would it be possible to put all xpm icons in one file in a format that
> fvwm would find easier and faster to access, as sort of cache. this could
> be compressed so that the icons took up less room (or are these 2 points
> a contradiction)
There already is some form of caching of pixmaps in fvwm2. See the
routine "libs/Picture.c:CachePicture()".
The XPM library allows the XPM file to be compressed. When you tell
it the icon is "icon.xpm" it also searches for "icon.xpm.gz". The
icon is held in memory in another format altogether.
> then the icons could be accessed by a small archiver program that would
> add and subtract icons and ensure that they all shared the same colour map.
There is a patch that is scheduled for 2.0.47 that will force all
icons and other XPM decorations to use the same set of colors. (The
colorlimiting patch.) This should achieve what you want.
> as it is right now, xpm's work for most of us, but having them in this format
> makes it more difficult for casual users to change their setup.
>
> one possbile advantage of this system would be to take naming inconsistancies
> between icons and mini icons away correlating them. this may also help any
> config program.
>
> any comments???
>
> Graeme
>
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Received on Fri Aug 22 1997 - 07:41:15 BST