Quoting Till Adam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello folks,
> 
> As Sven suggested a while back I have done an image provider for imlib2.
> It happily loads all file formats that imlib2 is currently capable of
> loading including xpm, xcf and various bitmap formats.

So the KXL games using xpm don't need to be patched ;)

> The only problem I have is that Imlib's probe function needs the full
> file name whereas image_probe currently only passes the head of the
> file. dok told me on irc that he'd consider changing that but that
> imlib's probe function should not open the complete file yet. Which
> brings me to the problem: It does ;)

Does it "just" read the file raw data or does it decompress the image?

> Now, it caches that file, so should the probe be succesfull and the
> image end up being loaded by imlib provider, the file will not be loaded
> again, but should the probe fail, it has been opened in vain.
> 
> Is that acceptable? I'd do a patch against DirectFB-extra which is where
> I think this belongs, but I'd prefer it if dok or someone would add the
> filename as an additional argument to image_probe first, so that I dont have
> to touch any code outside of -extra.

I will add the filename, please send a patch for DirectFB-extra after that.

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