Re: State of gdk-pixbuf

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 08:39 +0200, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> for what is worth here are the pathes that we need to apply downstream
> on windows:
>
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gdk-pixbuf2

It would be great if you could review the patches that are already in
bugzilla, and make sure that gdk-pixbuf upstream is usable for Windows.

Cheers

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> wrote:
>         Hey,
>         
>         I've spent a couple of days triaging all the gdk-pixbuf bugs,
>         wrangling
>         patches, and testing what was testable. The bugs left over
>         basically
>         fall in a few categories:
>         - Bugs or feature requests in the loaders. There's quite a few
>         of them
>         that could probably be handled in minutes, or maybe in a
>         couple of hours
>         if one doesn't know a particular format. It would be great to
>         have an
>         OPW or GSoC project based on those.
>         - API additions. A few of those for animation features which
>         we might or
>         might not want to support, quite a few for async versions of
>         existing
>         functions, or variants of existing functions (stream-based
>         loading).
>         - GDI loader bugs
>         - Pixops bugs (Argh [1])
>         - Handling of huge images
>         - Cairo interaction support
>         
>         The last 3 are related in that GdkPixbuf is a format that
>         doesn't lend
>         itself to handling big images (especially black and white
>         pictures would
>         balloon in memory usage), and that its coverage for
>         acceleration in
>         manipulation and compositing is small (basically unaccelerated
>         on
>         anything but 32-bit x86 and Solaris).
>         
>         I think we need to start looking at a replacement for pixops,
>         and a
>         replacement for the GdkPixbuf format.
>         
>         I'm particularly interested to know what cairo, pixman and
>         other image
>         manipulation libraries can do for us. Benjamin surely has
>         comments[2] :)
>         
>         Cheers
>         
>         PS: Now is a good time to look at your pet feature, dig in a
>         little, and
>         get your patches reviewed.
>         
>         [1]:
>         
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gdk-pixbuf&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=pixops
>         [2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491507#c13
>         
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