hi; On 23 October 2014 11:55, Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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. pixman supports RGBA (r8g8b8a8 and r8g8b8x8) since 2011, because it's used on big-endian architectures as well as being a requirement for OpenGL ES 2.0. this means that it should be possible to feed a GdkPixbuf pixel buffer to a pixman_image_t internally back and forth without copies, or, even better, to replace the GdkPixbuf internal storage and pixops with pixman_image_t and pixman operators. it should also be possible to create a tiled buffer composed by pixman_image_t tiles for large image data. ciao, Emmanuele. -- http://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
