Re: UI design for Tk app--PNG's or GIF's for icons?
- From: Chris McDonald <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:06:10 +0000 (UTC)
Kevin Walzer <kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Some say that png's look smoother than gifs, which can be jaggy, and
this may subtly contribute to user perceptions about an application's
polish. So: does anyone use png's in their applications? Or is this,
perhaps, more a matter of the overall application design/look/feel than
a single factor like the image format of the icons? (Looking at Eclipse,
where a huge amount of care has gone into the UI design and where the
icons are gifs, leads me to think that this is the case.)
I'm confused here;
GIF and PNG are encoding formats, they represent a fixed (but huge) number
of colours and possibly use a transaprency channel.
Eventually, they are both rendered to the same physical screen and each
with the same number of pixels and resolution.
You may have seen some PNGs smoother than some GIFs, but I don't believe
that that is a property of the *encoding* format, merely the amount of
effort that the icon designers have gone to. And if one format may be
converted to the other, and vice-versa, where does the definition loss
come from?
--
Chirs.
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