Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Re: [DotGNU]Distributed Savannah(was: phpGW and DotGNU)

[Miles Lott]

And, some of us do not agree with the anti-gif stance.  Also, from
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html:

'Therefore we can and will include support for displaying GIF files in
GNU software.'


"Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)" wrote:
> 
> We should probably move this discussion to the phpgw list. I am cc'ing
> it with this email.
> 
> "Gopal.V" wrote:
> >
> > > heh. Its easy to build a new theme for phpGW. Maybe someone will work on
> > > a GNU one.
> >         I was looking through the .tpl files, when I realized that you were
> > using gifs. I am against LZW compression, but I prefer software patent
> > violation ( no software patents in india :-) to meek submission. But from
> > what RMS has said, could you use PNG please ?.
> >
> > What you need is a %s/\.gif/\.png in the source
> >         and
> > giftopnm $1.gif | pnmtopng > $1.png
> >         for your gif to change into patent free PNGS.
> >
> >         Also the theme idea seems easy, so I will most probably hackup a GNU
> > (new ?) theme from the default. ie just swap the images ;-).
> 
> The problem is that png support is still problematic with many browsers.
> We also need transparent backgrounds which are also a problem in many
> PNG decoders. We are looking to switch to jpg but still have to address
> the transparency issue. Just know that we are working on this and we
> *do* want to change from gif as soon as possible.
> 
> Seek3r
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