Hey, I've spent a couple of days triaging all the gdk-pixbuf bugs, wrangling patches, and testing what was testable. The bugs left over basically fall in a few categories: - Bugs or feature requests in the loaders. There's quite a few of them that could probably be handled in minutes, or maybe in a couple of hours if one doesn't know a particular format. It would be great to have an OPW or GSoC project based on those. - API additions. A few of those for animation features which we might or might not want to support, quite a few for async versions of existing functions, or variants of existing functions (stream-based loading). - GDI loader bugs - Pixops bugs (Argh [1]) - Handling of huge images - Cairo interaction support
The last 3 are related in that GdkPixbuf is a format that doesn't lend itself to handling big images (especially black and white pictures would balloon in memory usage), and that its coverage for acceleration in manipulation and compositing is small (basically unaccelerated on anything but 32-bit x86 and Solaris). I think we need to start looking at a replacement for pixops, and a replacement for the GdkPixbuf format. I'm particularly interested to know what cairo, pixman and other image manipulation libraries can do for us. Benjamin surely has comments[2] :) Cheers PS: Now is a good time to look at your pet feature, dig in a little, and get your patches reviewed. [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gdk-pixbuf&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=pixops [2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491507#c13 _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
