GNU bug report logs - #39735
27.0.60; bugs about XBM images

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 39735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ynyaaa <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#39735: 27.0.60; bugs about XBM images
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:04:27 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Since XBM is so obscure, we could just document that XBM just doesn't
>> support scaling, and that it's an error to give those parameters (unless
>> you really mean XBM dimensions).
>
> That'd be fine with me, yes.

I've now done this, and I'm closing this bug report.

>> But again, that also means that somebody that writes a loop of
>> `create-images' must be careful to not call it on XBM images...
>
> Yes, but given its obscurity, maybe this is not so bad?

Yeah, I think the likelihood of finding XBM images in the wild is pretty
minuscule.

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