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@Raziel
PNG images are less than ideal as an icon file format, so they were never going to be an official 'out-the-box' feature of AmigaOS.
It would have been easy enough to add this years ago, but we resisted doing so because we had a bigger/better long term vision than that, and didn't want to be lumbered with having to maintain legacy PNG icon support in the OS forever more.
So instead, APIs were added to allow a clean PowerIcons implementation. And this has now been superseded by a PNG plug-in for the new native 32-bit AmigaOS icons system. Neither PNG icon option is enabled by default because we don't want application developers to be tempted release their apps with nothing but PNG icons provided. (One reason).
Obviously the new 32-bit format is the preferred format now, given the advantages and backwards compatibility it offers.
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