Re: LibRaw instead of libopenraw... to finally fix RAW support after 10 years

[Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>]

Hi!

AFAIK the gdk-pixbuf project prefers that loaders interfacing external libraries are shipped by the libraries themselves.

At least that has been the answer to a request for a .webp-loader recently. It's a reasonable approach I think, as it (for example) makes it more likely that the loader is kept stable in case LibRAW needs to change its API, without requiring an updated gdk-pixbuf release (which have become a bit rare lately).

So, yeah, it's probably a good idea to check whether LibRAW is interested in this. 

Regards,

Felix

Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2016, 22:48 +0100 schrieb Le anonymous faker:

Thanks for that explenation Felix. And yes, raw-thumbnails are another buggy thing e
With libopenraw.

I also just checked dcraw, it doesnt seem to have a gdx-pixbuf either. So I guess the best solution is just as you said, a LibRAW loader for gdx-pixbuf.

Should I annoy the LibRAW developers with this or is this rather smth that should come from the GNOME developers?

Kind regards !

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From: Felix Riemann <friemann gnome org>
Sent: January 4, 2016 4:40:44 PM GMT+01:00
To: Le anonymous faker <etfaker bestmail ws>, eog-list gnome org
Subject: Re: LibRaw instead of libopenraw... to finally fix RAW support after 10 years

Hi!

eog relies on gdk-pixbuf for image decoding and as such doesn't do anything special to load RAW images.

libopenraw has (as far as I know) been the only RAW library so far to ship its own plugin/loader for gdk-pixbuf.

By installing libopenraw's loader all applications using gdk-pixbuf (like eog, nautilus, ...) were able to open RAW images.

That's why it was usually recommended to install by some distros.

So, what is actually needed here is a LibRAW loader for gdk-pixbuf to replace libopenraw's.

No modifications to eog's code are necessary then. The added benefit would be that the thumbnails in nautilus would also be generated by it.

Regards,

Felix

Am Sonntag, den 03.01.2016, 11:29 +0100 schrieb Le anonymous faker:

Nope this is not fixed. I am on Arch Linux with l atest GNOME + EOG and while I can open CR2 files they are displayed with the wrong colors (everything is green/pink). Also switching to the next/previous picture with the arrow keys won't work.

EOG uses the old, dead and not-developed-anymore libopenraw.
Why not use the active developed LibRaw instead?

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Libraw:
Supports more than 800 digital camera/cellphone formats
Supports pretty much every RAW format.
Very active development (and that already for a long time)
www.libraw.org
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It's time that after 10 years this bug gets finally fixed. Especially in a time where CR2/RAW is a commong file format which pretty much every other image viewer supports out-of-the-box already.

Thanks in advance.

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