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[Emil Uzelac]

that was me after I talked with Andy, all right let's do PNG only!

*Old:* The screenshot should accurately show the theme design, and it could
be saved in PNG, JPEG or GIF format.
*New:* The screenshot should accurately show the theme design and saved in
PNG format.

Cheers,
Emil

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 keep PNG only
> ... it was PNG only until someone mentioned it could be JPG and GIF as
> well, then rule was changed to accomodate that.
>
>  ... though an animated gif would have been fun :-)
>
>
>
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> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> I knew that this was somewhere:
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Screenshot are we in
>> agreement to keep PNG only? Anyone disagrees?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emil
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am down with solo PNG :)
>>>
>>> Thanks Otto!
>>>
>>> Emil
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>>> > I don't recall this change. Maybe @Otto knows.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The uploader has always been looking for PNG only. Though a JPG or GIF
>>>> will technically work in core, I haven't bothered to remove that
>>>> restriction from the uploader because:
>>>>
>>>> a) lazy
>>>> b) I don't want to see animated GIFs on the directory, anywhere.
>>>> C'mon, you know it would happen.
>>>> c) lazy
>>>> d) If a screenshot is supposed to represent the look of the theme,
>>>> then PNG is the better compression for it anyway. JPG works for
>>>> photographs, not graphical elements.
>>>> e) lazy
>>>>
>>>> I'm perfectly okay with changing it, but I'd rather there be a better
>>>> reason given than "it works okay to have GIF/JPG shots in core code".
>>>> PNGs make more sense to me for all sane cases.
>>>>
>>>> -Otto
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