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