Re: consensus! (was Re: Image handling [draft])


Subject: Re: consensus! (was Re: Image handling [draft])
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 10:35:11 CDT


At 10:26 AM 4/21/01 +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
>On 04/20/01 Paul Rohr wrote:
>> Better yet. She can include a screenshot of AbiWord running on her TV in
>> the document, and *you* can read it, even though that image started out in
>> some weird TV-specific format that nobody else supports -- not IM, not
>> gdk-pixbuf, not even anywhere else in AbiWord.
>
>Actually, there are good chances her TV will use gdk-pixbuf and the
>Gtk port:-) See: www.directfb.org.

Thanks for the pointer. It's really nice to see Linux-based solutions
continuing to make inroads into the device space like this.

We've had interest in the past for framebuffer-oriented ports of AbiWord,
and it's great to have someplace to send those folks.

Paul



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