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Idea #4515: Save as GIF in gThumb

bug This entry was marked as not being an idea the 13 August 11. If this is a bug report, please use the Ubuntu bug tracker.
Written by bloggr the 13 Mar 08 at 18:24. Category: Graphics. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea
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Add the ability to save as GIF in gThumb and Eye of GNOME.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #4515
Written by bloggr the 13 Mar 08 at 18:24.
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shadowfirebird wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 20:36
I think you'll find that GIF is proprietry -- either Ubuntu would have to break the law or someone would have to pay money for this to work.

XSP wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 00:55
GIF isn't proprietary anymore. The patent expired on August 11th, 2006 and became a free format on October 1st of 2006. It's just an inferior format to (A)PNG and GNU has decided to exclude it even to this day.

XSP wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 00:56
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

fluxy wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 17:49
Why not add support for saving both in APNG and GIF format? Let the user choose...

Eldmannen wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 20:56
GIF sucks, nobody should use it.
Use PNG instead, if offers alpha channels, superior compression and quality.

LepeKaname wrote on the 21 Feb 09 at 06:40
For very simple graphics (with few colors) with transparent background GIF format is very useful to generate small-sized files. If you have a website with high traffic, those Gifs can save you a lot of bandwidth. Try it yourself.

Other thing is that unfortunately IE6 (that many people still use) do not support natively PNG's, so GIF has to be used to support transparency.

Anyway... I think that if gThumb supports opening and modifying GIFs would be good to have also "Save as GIF...". I'm not sure how difficult is to achieve that function but if it is too complicated then, I think is better just use GIMP for that purpose.

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 13 Aug 11 at 19:25
Please file a Wishlist Bug against gThumb (EoG) for this issue.
Closing in Brainstorm.


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