On 21.01.2012 13:20, Alexander Yakushev wrote:
> On 01/21/2012 01:58 PM, Uli Schlachter wrote:
>> You could find us a nice, small library for loading images into cairo 
>> surfaces.
>> Previously awesome was using imlib2 which has built-in support for loading a
>> wide variety of image formats.
>>
>> However, the drawing API of imlib2 is IMHO quite limited and thus we 
>> switched to
>> cairo. Technically, cairo has no support for loading any kind of image. 
>> However
>> there is "toy function" (= "you shouldn't be using this") for loading PNG 
>> images
>> and that is what we are currently using.
>>
>> I don't feel like inventing my own library just for this, so... dunno.
>>
>> Uli
> Thank you for anwering!
> 
> I am pretty bad at C so I'm afraid I can't help you with finding this 
> library. I may seem idiotic here (I really don't know the specifics) but 
> is there a chance to leave the support for imlib2 (in kind of deprecated 
> style)? I have some code that relies on displaying jpgs and feeding 
> images through imagemagick to convert them to pngs doesn't feel right 
> neither.

Since nothing is going to happen any time soon, I turned this into a bug report:

https://awesome.naquadah.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=958

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