Re: GSoC/Outreachy ideas for gdk-pixbuf

2017-01-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 16:50 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Bastien Nocera > 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

Re: GSoC/Outreachy ideas for gdk-pixbuf

2017-01-09 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Bastien Nocera 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

Re: GSoC/Outreachy ideas for gdk-pixbuf

2017-01-09 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey Bastien, On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:01:10PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey, > > I spent a bit of time with gdk-pixbuf at the end of December, and had > an idea for gdk-pixbuf. > > I know a few people want to get rid of gdk-pixbuf, but let's be > realistic, the amount of work needed to

GSoC/Outreachy ideas for gdk-pixbuf

2017-01-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hey, I spent a bit of time with gdk-pixbuf at the end of December, and had an idea for gdk-pixbuf. I know a few people want to get rid of gdk-pixbuf, but let's be realistic, the amount of work needed to shift away from it would be far too great to be done in one go, so why not make gdk-pixbuf