Re: Independent image loaders in gdk-pixbuf

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> I have finally delivered the "independent image loaders" patch to gtk HEAD 
> (and shortly after that, the svg loader has popped up in librsvg. Thanks, 
> Dom) It would be nice if people could play around with this some more; 
> there is even some documentation in the gdk-pixbuf API reference under 
> "Extending GdkPixbuf". 
> 
> In order for the new format-listing-and-information API to become truely 
> useful, I need feedback on appropriate mime types and file extensions and 
> some better descriptions. The descriptive texts in cvs right now are 
> mostly "The XYZ image format" which seems not very useful. Of course, the 
> appropriate length and content of the text depends a lot on the intended 
> use. Dom, Alex, since you proposed that addition, what would you want to 
> see there ? 

Most of this data can be pulled from gnome-vfs.mime and gnome-vfs.keys in 
gnome-mime-data.

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