Nicolas Calimet wrote:
> 
>     ... and you know that looking at the code will tell you that
> those core functions aren't badly hijacked: it's actually quite clean
> :-)

Well - this is not the point.  The problem is that when making changes 
to the core code possible requirements of the frontend using the code 
for a different nonstandard purpose are no concern.  In other words: The 
interfaces between core code and platform specific frontend should be 
well defined for both directions and currently this is not the case for 
using the image reading functions in the frontend.

>> Maybe we should just write a simple PPM reader that can be used by all 
>> display modes for reading the background image.
> 
> 
>     PPM can't handle transparency (gimp says).  Can it?

No but what use has transparency except having a totally transparent 
image (which does not need to be an image anyway).  Note you can of 
course also implement a PNG reader but this would require libpng.

Christoph

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