Re: UI design for Tk app--PNG's or GIF's for icons?

Kevin Walzer wrote:
I hope this isn't too off-topic. I'm curious as to what others think
about the question of gif or png files for icons in a Tk application.

I know gif's are more commonly used by Tk developers, likely because
gif's are supported natively and some de-facto Tk stock icons (such as
those that ship with BWidgets) are gif's. Other formats require the Img
extension.

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.)


Personally, I don't think it matters at all. No user will likely ever know or care what internal format you use for images.


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