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

[Kele Kravelin]

I'm ambivilent about BMP but it may be useful to some so is probably best to
be left in place. As for PNG it should be added as an option, but not if it
removes TGA. Both PNG and TGA are becoming standards (along with JPG, BMP
has the least support really) in screenshot formats in various games,
especially online MMO style games.

Grazel Cosmo


On 9/24/07, Nicholaz Beresford <nicholaz at blueflash.cc> wrote:
>
>
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> > On 24-Sep-2007, at 02:35, Jason Giglio wrote:
> >> Well as I pointed out elsewhere, MS Paint in Win XP+ apparently does
> >> support PNG.
> >
> > Not in Windows 2000, which is still supported (and is the last version
> > of Windows that's big-brother-free).
>
> Well, I'd say leave BMP in if you want the patch accepted.  Taking it
> out the Lindens can only loose, there's someone bound to complain
> because it breaks something for someone (and be it just a weird
> automated system that can only read BMPs) and there's no real benefit
> (like performance, code size, etc.) in removing it.
>
> Btw, there's already an option somewhere in prefs to save screens in
> compressed format which saves the screenshots in TGA atm.  Adding
> an option for PNG there may be the way to go, or replacing TGA with
> PNG (as that's bound to break it for less people).
>
>
>
> Nick
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