On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> wrote: > 2) Use giflib to load GIF files > Again, the gif loader is kind of hard to read and maintain and giflib > seems to be well maintained. It would start with a new loader, which we > could force load and check that it can pass all the test cases we have > for the home-made GIF loader, and then use it to fix the additional > bugs. > > This would be a single GSoC, with 1) being used to become familiar with > gdk-pixbuf loaders, and 2) the actual target. >
It would also be an interesting/useful project to add Rust-based pixbuf loaders which can then replace the C-based ones once they're working at-par (or close enough). I remember hearing Federico mention that he'd be interested in working on that himself—perhaps he'd also be interested in mentoring someone to work on that? Cheers, Nirbheek _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
