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Re: Background image collection



On 14-Mar 03:13, Dave Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:37:03AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jon Franklin wrote:
[snip naming arguments... :)]
> >       background-at-1600x1200_<version>_all.deb
> >       background-at-1280x1024_<version>_all.deb
> >       background-at-1024x768_<version>_all.deb
> >       background-at-800x600_<version>_all.deb
> >       background-at-640x480_<version>_all.deb
> >           -> containing the images scaled down to the apropriate size
> >
> 
> I'd be concerned for disk space, and would suggest considering a single
> high-res (say 1600x1200) package, and then a single middle res (say
> 800x600).  If the end user runs a different screen resolution and doesn't
> have processor power to rescale them on the fly, we can provide scripts to
> resize locally.
> 
> Dave

Why not ship the hi resolution pictures and scale them down to user
requested size post install? I'm all for useful packages being available
for debian, but the huge number makes it somewhat hard to keep track of what
to take a look at. 

Thomas

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