Subject: Re: gdk-pixbuf vs. ImageMagick
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 10:55:57 CDT
>2. Use system-specific services, such as the BeOS and QNX image munging
>APIs. In this case, the XP API would be implemented by platform-specific
>code to call those system services. This is what Thomas Fletcher has been
>advocating, for obvious (and good) reasons.
>5. Use gdk-pixbuf instead.
>
>I'm not clear on what *you* mean by #5. Some folks seem to believe that
>something like gdk-pixbuf could be ported to become a lighter-weight
>solution than miniIM for all our platforms. If I read Dom correctly, he's
>been proposing to only use gdk-pixbuf on GTK/GNOME.
>
>For you, is #5 more like #4 or more like #2?
I've been arguing for #5 to be a specific implementation of #2 - gdk-pixbuf
is the system service.
Dom
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