[Splashy-devel] 0.3.1 beggins ;-)

[Otavio Salvador]

"Pat Suwalski" <pats at xandros.com> writes:

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> I've commited the first change on 0.3.1 release. I dropped the JPEG
>> support.
>
> That is unfortunate. It was the only format I found useful. It does
> not make sense to have a >500K PNG image when I could have a <100K
> JPEG, especially in initramfs.

Please, let's explore it a bit more.

I think that PNG are better since:

 - they properly supports alpha channel
 - 16bits of colors

I've done a test here, using our internal theme for it.

Our artwork is done on 1024x768 image and here goes what we got:

,----
| 55K background-jpeg.jpg
| 38K background-inkscape.png
| 31K background-pngcrush.png
| 29K background-optipng.png
`----

I didn't find any regression. Maybe other files it differs.

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