On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 13:06 +0200, Tiago Vignatti wrote: > Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vigna...@nokia.com> > --- > > This patch is a WIP to remove gdk-pixbuf dependency and use libpng instead. > It is unfinished though and only compositor with simple-client works. > > In principle, gdk-pixbuf is a bit bloated and brings a big package dependency > in some platforms which makes harder to try Wayland. On the other hand, > gdk-pixbuf has several modules to convert a bunch of image formats in pixel > data, whereas libpng has only one, obviously. This is the drawback on using > lipng. However, I guess compositor and clients could live happy with libpng > only given they are made for demonstration purposes (well, at least at the > moment). > > I won't be playing with this on the next days, but I'd love to help anyone > with this work in the case I got a positive feedback here. Then, the short > TODO on my mind: > > - fix command line parsing in compositor.c > - apply analogue changes for other clients and screenshooter > > > Thanks! > > Tiago
I think it would make more sense to write a generalized backend-driven system so distributions that don't wish to ship gdk-pixbuf, or libpng for that matter, can simply write a backend suitable for their needs. >From the looks of your patch it probably wouldn't be too far of a stretch. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
