Move KolourPaint into kdegraphics?

Clarence Dang dang at kde.org
Wed Mar 3 08:24:18 GMT 2004


On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:36 pm, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 00:54, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:13, Ante Wessels wrote:
> > > On Lunes 01 Marzo 2004 20:17, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > > > On Monday 01 March 2004 16:26, Lauri Watts wrote:
> > > > > > Replacing kpaint? I'm all for it
> > > > >
> > > > > With kolourpaint, is there any need for kiconedit to hang around
> > > > > too?
> > >
> > > As far as I know, no artist is using kiconedit. For pixel images
> > > everybody uses gimp.
> >
> > The last time I checked KIconEdit was the only application that could be
> > used to create .ico files which are needed for favicons. Not even Gimp
> > could write .ico files. I used Gimp to create the favicon, but I needed
> > KIconEdit to convert the PNG to ICO.
>
> Its probably not too hard to add ICO support to kolourpaint if we ask
> the developer(s).
>
Neither kolourpaint nor kiconedit can create ico files in KDE >= 3.2.  ICO 
write support will be improved and re-enabled in kdelibs/kimgio.  I've 
already volunteered to do this 
(http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.3-features.html).

Clarence





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