images (was Re: How do I get Kmail to show ontheKmenu/Internetdropdown again?

[Derek Broughton]

Steven Vollom wrote:

> lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> >I thought it allowed attachments up to 40K.
>>
>> Could be, but I suspect steven's attachemnets were bigger than that
>> :)
> I am sure they were; the screen included two windows for the
> Thunderbird
> configuration and two for Kmail on the right.  There was a lot of data
> and background stuff.  I don't think I could get a screen shot down to
> 40kb.

Sure you can - I just did a screenshot of the full screen (1200x800) via 
ksnapshot and saved as jpeg.  By default it was 80K. but:

$ convert  /tmp/window.jpeg -quality 1 /tmp/window1.jpeg

Got it down to a very fuzzy but essentially usable 11K.  Even 
"-quality 9" was only 20K and quite readable.  Unfortunately, ksnapshot 
used to allow you specify the compression level in the save dialog, and 
I can't even figure out how to make Gimp do that now...

> Even if everything was transparent, the background must contain
> more than 40kb.  I am enjoying the collaboration.

I certainly don't know the technical details of image compression but 
backgrounds essentially compress away.  
-- 
derek