Re: Minutes: Foreign OSes BoF

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > (Unless there is some way to read and
> >  write text chunks also through GDI+ after all.)
> >     
>
> GDI+ does provide access to *some* tEXt chunks that it knows about a
> priori. At least the Description chunk is available as
> PropertyTagImageDescription and the Software chunk as
> PropertyTagSoftwareUsed. But that doesn't help, as libgimpthumb wants
> to read and write chunks that GDI+ has no idea about, like Thumb::URI
> and Thumb::X-GIMP::Type.
>
> This is a design mistake in the GDI+ library IMHO... Surely they have
> known that in many image formats one can have a set of arbitrary
> tag-value pairs, and they should have provided a way to access these,
> not just those properties they chose to enumerate in GdiPlusImaging.h.
>
> Oh well, we will have to continue using the libpng-based PNG loader
> then. We could link libpng statically, though, if we want to minimize
> the number of "external" DLLs we depend on.
>   

Will cairo move away from libpng too? If not, then
libpng dll is still needed in an application, and so
it's fine for gtk.

Yevgen