laughlin-backgrounds-gnome size increase

[drago01]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Martin Sourada
<martin.sourada at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 12:43 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:32:54 -0500,
>>   Charles Kerr <charles at transmissionbt.com> wrote:
>> > I don't have much experience with pngout, but it claims to be able to
>> > shave an extra 14% off these images' sizes.  I tried it out on the
>> > four images in standard/ and got this result:
>>
>> While better lossless compression would be a good thing to be doing for
>> all of the artwork, I don't think that is going to help enough here.
>> Given the short amount of time, I don't think this approach (assuming it
>> was expanded to include a larger set of artwork) is going to be practical
>> as an immediate solution.
> Once, we used optipng for that, but the savings really aren't that much
> (depending on picture, about 10%) plus they're time-intensive.

10% is a rather nice improvement ...

"plus they're time-intensive"

That doesn't matter the extra time is *buildtime* not actual runtime.