Hi !

> >  Even better: We make a "smart" module that tries to guess the image-type.
> >  It will then try to load the corresponding handler (using the equivalent 

> Perhaps I should assimilate my "LibDataType" library into GGI, under a
> new name like LibGFFD (generic file format detection).  Using suffixes
> and magic numbers, it can recognise over 400 file formats, 

This sounds good. Will it use the /etc/magic database, or its internal 
methods ?

> Using LibGFFD, this new picture library could detect the filetype, and
> then look it up in the gpf.conf file to find which DLL to load to
> handle the image.
> Any interest in this approach ?

Yeah - sounds good.

Looks like we are striving to reinvent gnome :-) ...

CU, ANdy

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