[sldev] What color should I paint the bike shed?

[Argent Stonecutter]

From: Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com>
> Does anyone have any compelling reason to keep BMP as an option,
> including new UI to select the format to save as?

Windows users can edit BMPs (crop them, etc) with Windows Paint. They  
can't do that for other formats.
Uploaded PNG and TGS come in as alpha textures, and even if they're  
100% opaque for all pixels you get alpha rendering issues.
So being able to save in a format that most users can just edit and  
upload is valuable.

The second issue can be fixed with a smarter uploader (at least one  
with the ability to specify whether alpha is maintained).
The first, not without help from Microsoft. :)