Re: [Audacity-devel] Embedding XPM vs depending on PNG file

[Markus M. <me...@me...>]

James,

James Crook schrieb:
> I can see good arguments for getting rid of XPMs and using PNGs.  I
> don't see any compelling argument for dropping built-in images.  To me
> it looks to be a bad thing.  It would make Audacity unusable without
> the theme file.
The compelling argument for dropping built-in images is to be able to
plug-in additional themes. The compelling arguments against built-in
images is that they need extra spaces when they are not needed. Also,
Audacity already depends de-facto on the language files (for everyone
outside English-speaking countries) and on plugins (for everyone who
does a little bit advanced stuff with it). I don't see what's the
disadvantage with having a directory Images/ with PNG images in it that
would be located in the same directory as Audacity (on Windows) and in
/usr/share on Linux. I don't see any failure scenarios where this could
be a problem.


Markus