laughlin-backgrounds-gnome size increase

[Charles Kerr]

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:

% for foo in *png; do wine ~/bin/pngout.exe "$foo" out/"$foo"; done
 In: 3811866 bytes               laughlin-01-morning.png /c6 /f5
Out: 3305323 bytes               out/laughlin-01-morning.png /c2 /f5
Chg: -506543 bytes ( 86% of original)
 In: 3471621 bytes               laughlin-02-noon.png /c6 /f5
Out: 3009028 bytes               out/laughlin-02-noon.png /c2 /f5
Chg: -462593 bytes ( 86% of original)
 In: 3254979 bytes               laughlin-03-evening.png /c6 /f5
Out: 2822083 bytes               out/laughlin-03-evening.png /c2 /f5
Chg: -432896 bytes ( 86% of original)
 In: 3168173 bytes               laughlin-04-night.png /c6 /f5
Out: 2735233 bytes               out/laughlin-04-night.png /c2 /f5
Chg: -432940 bytes ( 86% of original)

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:07:24 +0200,
>  Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I apologize for the inconvenience -- I should have probably notified the
>> desktop folks ahead that it was highly probable that l-b-g-gnome would
>> increase in size rather drastically (I myself had the info week ahead of
>> the packaging)...
>
> It's a bit more than an incovenience. It is breaking some spins. (In that
> they aren't going to make their target size without changes.)
> We either need a way to only get some of that stuff, or some way to not
> use that package for at least a few spins. We only have a few days to react
> to this. The two spins that went over size are probably going to have a problem
> with removing other software and we will probably want to look at some way
> to use a simpler backgrounds package. If you guys have some ideas in that
> direction it would help.
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