Does the patch seem reasonable for at least fixing the problem of not
saving/using the original image? At least as an intermediary towards a
better avatar handling.

--Benson Tsai

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gustavo Pichorim Boiko
<gustavo.bo...@kdemail.net> wrote:
>
> Em 02/02/2009, às 17:43, Benson Tsai escreveu:
>
> (...)
>>
>> Just to clarify, when you say "save smaller icons in the original
>> size", do you mean use QT to save the image? In my opinion, we should
>> just save the original without touching it. This way you can preserve
>> animation (if any, since QT can read animated images, but not write).
>
> Yes, we can simply save the original image. We just need to take care
> when upscaling/adapting such images for displaying to preserve the
> animation (if we ever support them in the contactlist).
>
>> On the other hand, the scaling done by the avatar manager is still
>> expected by protocols that need to abide by that restriction. IMO, the
>> protocols probably should be scaling by themselves to the necessary
>> size instead of expecting the avatar manager to hand the exact right
>> size (which is probably why 96x96 is used since it is the size that is
>> supported across the board).
>
> Protocols should do the scaling (and some of them are doing already
> IIRC). One thing we can do is adding a method in the avatar manager
> which returns the avatar image in a specified size (which protocols
> could use to get images at the desired size)
>
> Cheers
>
> Boiko
>
>
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