Hey Bastien, On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:01:10PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey, > > I spent a bit of time with gdk-pixbuf at the end of December, and had > an idea for gdk-pixbuf. > > I know a few people want to get rid of gdk-pixbuf, but let's be > realistic, the amount of work needed to shift away from it would be far > too great to be done in one go, so why not make gdk-pixbuf > better/smaller to make it easier. > > 1) ICO/BMP code sharing > Both uncompressed ICO and BMP use the same DIB format, though the > headers are different. I think there's quite a few pieces of code that > could be shared. > > Patches to share structures between both would be a good first patch > contribution, which we now require for GSoC at least. > > 2) Use giflib to load GIF files > Again, the gif loader is kind of hard to read and maintain and giflib > seems to be well maintained. It would start with a new loader, which we > could force load and check that it can pass all the test cases we have > for the home-made GIF loader, and then use it to fix the additional > bugs. > > This would be a single GSoC, with 1) being used to become familiar with > gdk-pixbuf loaders, and 2) the actual target.
I used your mail as an opportunity to start the 2017 ideas page for GSoC, and copied most of your email there https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2017/Ideas Christophe
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