Afterstep 2.0 Beta Includes XML Graphics System

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday August 13, 2003 @11:20AM from the from-the-wayback-machine dept.

vaevictus writes "Afterstep just released its 2.0 Beta 1, after a long merge from its development branch. One of the most interesting new features is an XML-based graphics system, where any picture for any part of the WM can be a simple chunk of XML, which can do transformations, scaling, gradients and some other nice graphics mods. I've personally used this to cut my 1600x1200 image size from a 2.4mb PNG to a total of about 37kb. This leads to some very compact themes. If you're not familiar, AfterStep is one of the older WMs out there still in active development; all of you WindowMaker fans should check out the WM your WM branched off of, so long ago."

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The good news by The+Bungi · 2003-08-13 11:28 · Score: 5, Funny

I've personally used this to cut my 1600x1200 image size from a 2.4mb png to a total of about 37kb.
That's the good news. The bad news is the WM now eats up 300MB of memory, instead of 30.
Re:XML Image format? by zulux · 2003-08-13 11:36 · Score: 5, Funny

No.... like this! </picture type=jpeg> <data encoding=32_bit_little _endian_binary_written_in_an_acsii_string_in=32_li ttle_endian> 1010101100101001010000111010101010100010001010101 0101010001010101...... </data> </picture>

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