Hi,
today this showed up in CVS:
2001-02-20 Simon Budig <simon@xxxxxxxx>
* app/gdisplay.[ch]
* app/disp_callbacks.c
* app/interface.c: Added preliminary support for Preview icons.
This is not finished: We need a better way to get previews with
a specific depth and probably a rendered Checkerboard for the
alpha channel. Also the update function is now bound to a click
in the top left menu-button and should go in some idle-stuff.
Please test this on various window managers and give some
feedback. The last point is the aspect ratio of the generated
previews...
This is IMHO the most superfluous feature that has ever been thought
of and overall a pretty bad idea. You don't want every single brush
stroke to propagate a notification about an icon change to the window
manager. Also it seems undesirable to create new gc and preview for this
all the time. The necessary task switches and the overhead caused in the
X-Server and windowmanager is IMHO not worth the advantage you might get
from those icons. I strongly doubt that the icons will be helpful at all
since their size is so tiny on almost all window managers. Using
slightly different but static icons for different kinds of gimp windows
might prove to be helpful.
Salut, Sven
