Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ? Nope. So long as Nothing Bad Happens, like what happened with GIF, we'll always have XPM support available. I'm only hoping to push the lion's share of the graphics duties to PNG. It's Free, it's portable, it's efficient and it easily deals with modern hardware. Other things being equal we should use it everywhere we can. We still have need for XPM and symbolic names, I'm not proposing to make that go away without an equivalent.