Re: State of gdk-pixbuf

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:31 PM, 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.

Thanks for doing that!

> 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] :)

When I last talked to Soeren about it (several years ago), pixman
didn't support the pixel format that gdk-pixbuf is using.