Re: Several suggestions for image support

[Kim F. Storm]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Kim F. Storm wrote:
> 
> > I understand now -- yes it is silly to try to guess something which
> > is already there.
> > Would somebody want to work on fixing this?
> 
> What's to fix? There is already code there to create a mask from
> transparent parts of a PNG image with transparency.

Transparent backgrounds was broken on X -- and on W32.
I already have a fix for X (to be committed shortly).
It would be great to have W32 fixed as well.

> 
> And for images with an alpha channel, if no :background is specified,
> the frame background color is used.
> 
> In the alpha channel case, it might be better to do this at the time
> the image is displayed, in order to take faces into account, but that
> would probably mean a change in the way we cache and reuse images.

That's an idea...  for 22.1 :-)

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk