Re: state of contrib/gdk-pixbuf-xlib

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Erwann Chenede <Erwann Chenede Sun COM> writes:
> 
> Is gdk-pixbuf-xlib ABI frozen as the rest of GTK+-2.0 is ? 
>

No. It's also totally buggy...
 
> I'm asking this question because as part of making sawfish support
> multiple screen in a same process, Shobhit had to modify gdk-pixbuf-xlib
> to render pixbufs on multiple screens not only the default one.
> 
> At the moment gdk-pixbuf-xlib only allow to render pixbufs on the default 
> screen.
> 
> So would changes that API to allow to specify screen numbers would be accepted ?

I think so, if we're going to use gdk-pixbuf-xlib I think we need to
start over on it, more or less - that is, take current gdk-pixbuf and
gdkrgb, and port them back to Xlib. The current gdk-pixbuf-xlib
doesn't have any of the hundreds of bugfixes that have gone in to
gdk-pixbuf itself.

Havoc