Re: gdk-pixbuf and mime-types

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jens Finke <jens triq net> writes:

> On 7 Jun 2001, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > > while hacking eog to use the new file selector, it occured to me that
> > > > eog doesn't actually know what kinds of files it can open, since this
> > > > depends entirely on gdk-pixbuf (which can actually load files of types
> > > > it didn't come with, due to the plugins, right?).
> > > >
> > > > so are there problems with adding API to gdk-pixbuf to get a list of
> > > > mime-types it thinks it can load?
> > >
> > > An API for this would be a good addition. But that still doesn't allow the
> > > .oaf file to contain the proper list of MIME types, so gnome-vfs (and
> > > hence Nautilus) can't be told which types of files the eog component can
> > > handle. If we are going to fix this problem, it might be nice to fix it in
> > > a way that solves this aspect of the problem too.
> 
> There is also another problem with gdk-pixbuf. Not all image types which
> are supported by gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file can be loaded with a
> gdk-pixbuf-loader (e.g. xpm). The loader is what eog currently uses. But
> maybe we should fix this stuff in gdk-pixbuf.

Any places where there is a problem of this nature should be entered
as bugs on bugzilla.gnome.org.

Regards,
                                        Owen