On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 08:39 +0200, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > for what is worth here are the pathes that we need to apply downstream > on windows: > > https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gdk-pixbuf2
It would be great if you could review the patches that are already in bugzilla, and make sure that gdk-pixbuf upstream is usable for Windows. Cheers > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> > wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > Ignacio Casal Quinteiro _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
