Re: gdk_pixbuf and comments ?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> I think one way we discussed doing this was similar to the properties
> passed to gdk_pixbuf_save() - there would be loader-specific named
> fields you could retrieve from images.
> 
> Something like:
>  gchar *comment = gdk_pixbuf_get_extra_field (pixbuf, "comment");
> 
> Then it's a bit more extensible. That seems a bit lame though, we may
> have had the details hashed out a bit better in the past.

I would prefer a cleaner API, but I wouldn't object to this solution. We
could then define a small set of common property names for standard
stuff like comment, gamma, resolution as we do in GIMP for parasites.
I'll have a look at the gdk-pixbuf-save() implementation...


Salut, Sven