Re: Root background and Pager

Guylhem Aznar (ciguylhem@barberouge.linux.lmm.com)
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:26:00 +0200 

On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 11:46:43AM -0500, Sasha_Vasko@osca.state.mo.us wrote:
> >So we can have ScaleRoot8bpp and ScaleRootTrueColor
> That's not the problem.
> What I really mean was, that one can store original TrueColor pix
> somwhere in archive, and using only 8bpp version as the background
> to save up space, which means that you don't have original to scale,
> and you don't whant to scale 8bpp version to not to get some crap
> as the result.                                               ^^^^^

It is not intended to be art :)

What about :

1. In backgrounds, you put a pixmap of your choice (*you* decide 8bpp or
truecolor !).
2. You choose it : as creates either a 8bpp or a truecolor .small. ,
depending on your configuration
3. Your pixmap is put in root window while scaled down 8bpp or truecolor
.small. is put on pager bg.

> Therefore we need to provide some flexible choice, wheather to scale
> it on the fly, or use alternative image.

y

> That is also raising interesting question:
> As far as XPM files are so huge, and so very good compressible,
> do we want to enable use of GZ-ipped versions, like :   filename.xpm.gz?

y
 
> Page reads xpm files only once on startup, or when you change background,
> so it won't be to hard for CPU, and also LZ is very fast to decompress.

Ok 

Tell me when your patches are ready !

> I mean, you don't want to end up with bunch of .small. files
> somewhere on your drive after few month of AS using,
> and nowbody knows how to remove unneeded.

They mustn't be removed if main file still exists, even 9 month later.
 
> At least we can come up with dir like
> ~/G/L/A/cache
> and store all that stuff in there so people will know where to
> look for work files.

ok
 
> Sasha.

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