Re: imagemagic in image-mode and image-dired-thumbnail-mode?

[Vitalie Spinu]

 >> address@hidden
 >> on Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:32:50 +0200 wrote:

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 > At any rate, as I recall, there are no reasons not to implement scaling
 > support in image mode, Someone(TM) just needs to invest some energy. It
 > shouldnt even be very hard.

 >> 
 >> I naturally wonder if there should be a global user custom variable
 >> like:
 >> 
 >> (defcustom image-view-type (and (image-type-available-p 'imagemagick)
 >> 'imagemagick))
 >> 

How about this one? Would it ever make sense to use libjpeg or libpng if
imagemagick support is available? If not, then image-mode and
image-dired can use imagemagick whenever present and no custom var is
necessary.

    Vitalie