use a resource system to load images and stylesheet

resources/convertresources.py

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+""" A small script to convert the images into base64 data """
+
+# FIXME: ignore this script and the original images in .gitignore so that it pushes to
+#        the GitHub repository but not package control
+
+from base64 import b64encode
+
+with open('404.png', 'rb') as png, open('404.base64', 'wb') as base64:
+    base64.write(b64encode(png.read()))
+
+with open('loading.png', 'rb') as png, open('loading.base64', 'wb') as base64:
+    base64.write(b64encode(png.read()))