Re: Picon questions

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> The automatic picon creator referenced off the indiana.edu pages is
> AWOL, not accepting connections.  Can someone tell me a suitable
> pipeline to convert a given face.gif to a picon-compatible colormap?
> They're supposed to be reduced to a 32-color set.  I started using
> picons just today, and I'm using a mess of new *.gif that I've
> created, but they're surely not within the right color parameters as
> discussed at indiana.edu.

I'd suggest taking a file with known good colors (i.e., something from
the picons database that uses similar colors to what you want to use),
and then use "ppmquant -map that-file.ppm your-file.pmm" to convert
your file to use the same color map.

> Also, it seems to me that, once people have picked up the picon
> *.tar.Z files, they'll never again get them (they're huge).  Is there
> any sort of auto-update scheme, I suppose in a subscription motif,
> where one could be notified of new picons' availability?

In the old version of the picons code, there were functions for
fetching picons off of the web.  I haven't resurrected that code
yet...

But, no, I haven't heard of any auto-updating scheme.  Beyond "apt-get
upgrade".  :-)

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