Re: [gthumb-list] the ext branch is now public

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak ha scritto:
> > All these problems combined together have brought me to the conclusion
> > that rewriting the code from scratch was a better choice that trying to
> > fix the current code base. At the beginning it was very experimental
>
> Paolo,
>
> Since you're rewriting everything anyway... can we replace gdk-pixbuf, 
> and move to gegl or something similar (vips, for instance)?
>
> gdk-pixbuf only supports 8-bit rgb, which is inadequate for raw images 
> and newer formats (jpeg2000, even some tiff files).
>
> It would also be nice to use the tiling features of these libraries, 
> to allow viewing of huge images without loading every single pixel 
> into memory.
>
> Just a suggestion...
>
> - Mike
this seems like a nontrivial change that will require too much time for 
the current development series schedule, maybe in the next development 
version.

- Paolo