Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 21:10, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> it need not be compressed. You could even specify it in the spec, though notably
> anything png is already probably deflated and thus not suitable under this criteria.
> Which scenarious do you have in mind that call for alignment?
> 

The original post:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-April/msg00065.html

Icon themes use 0.5M per app. The point is to *share* the data between
apps via mmap(), and *not copy* from the file, just use the mapped file
directly in the app software. There's no parsing.

Thus you have to align the data, so you can access it directly.

Havoc