Re: Building with image support

[Eric Lilja]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Eric Lilja <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > David Kastrup wrote:
> > > Eric Lilja <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > My question is this: What am I missing without png support, without
> > > > tiff support etc? I only work with text with emacs, 90 percent of
> > > > the time programming. My original wish has been fullfilled, which
> > > > was nice looking toolbars on windows, but I wanted to know if it
> > > > might be a good idea to build emacs with support for the other image
> > > > formats as well. But if it doesn't matter to what I do with emacs, I
> > > > don't want to complicate my "build environment" unnecessarily.
> > > You can use Emacs to browse/view images and directories containing
> > > them, and there is something like
> > > <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html> if you
> > > are using LaTeX for writing texts.
> > Thanks for the quick reply, David. If I get more serious in my attempt
> > to learn latex, I will most definetly look into latex preview mode and
> > try to build emacs with the image format support it needs for
> > that. But as far as the "UI" is concerned, xpm is sufficient, right?
>
> PNG icons supposedly look quite more refined on GTK+, partly due to
> better transparency support.

I see, do you know if it has any effect on windows? When I'm using 
GNU/Linux, I use the binary supplied with my distribution. I don't know 
how to build it on that platform yet. I will most likely try to learn 
that if I continue to use the cvs trunk version.

- Eric