Re: Thoughts about a new GdkPixbuf transform interface

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 08:25, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>   It's just my opinion, but don't you think this really belongs in Gtk
> at all? GdkPixbuf becomes quite complex with these, and I suspect (but
> haven't checked) there are separate libraries that do this already. 99%
> of applications don't need affine transformations, you know... Scaling
> is quite enough.

Well, I don't think you need arbitrary affines, but both scales and
rotations are pretty common requirements, and arbitrary affines
are no hard than scales and rotations.

Long term, GTK+ certainly needs a powerful 2D rendering API ...
hopefully, we can reuse something like Xr rather than completely
rolling our own, but rotating pixbufs seems to be very much
in-scope for what users of GTK+ need to do.

Regards,
                                            Owen