External Dependency Proposal: GtkImageView

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

I'd like to use Björn Lindqvist's GtkImageView widget [1] in Evolution
for displaying image attachments inline.

Evolution has been displaying image attachments inline on its own for
ages, but GtkImageView does it better, is fully documented [2], and
offers panning and zooming features that are nice for large images.

I already have a working implementation in the form of a conditionally
compiled "inline-image" plugin (which replaces our crusty old built-in
image handling code), so the dependency would be optional.

Approving GtkImageView as an external dependency might also make it more
appealing to the gThumb and Eye of GNOME developers.

Matthew Barnes


[1] http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/
[2]
http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/chrome/common/gtkimageview-docs/