Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:15 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:30:51PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
| > | > Ie, when configuring --with-frontend=xforms get lib/configure to add a
| > | > line to lib/lyxrc.defaults:
| > | >         \converter lyxpreview ppm "lyxpreview2bitmap.sh" ""
| > | > and when configuring --with-frontend=qt2 have a line
| > | >         \converter lyxpreview png "lyxpreview2bitmap.sh" ""
| > | >
| > | > Would that not be a good solution?
| > |
| > | Why not.
| >
| > Hmm... wouldn't it be better to have the qt part prefere png and let
| > xforms prefere ppm?
| >
| > The graphcis code could just query the gui in use.
| 
| Yuch! Let the user specify what he wants. If he wants to write his own script 
| that's fine by me. Hard coding for the sake of it is evil!

More like a way for the gui to say what formats it can accept and in
which order those formats would be prefered.

Users should not have to muck around with script-writing to get good
graphics loading performance.

-- 
        Lgb

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