Re: gdk_pixbuf and comments ?

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 6 Aug 2001, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
> > I think one way we discussed doing this was similar to the properties
> > passed to gdk_pixbuf_save() - there would be loader-specific named
> > fields you could retrieve from images.
> > 
> > Something like:
> >  gchar *comment = gdk_pixbuf_get_extra_field (pixbuf, "comment");
> > 
> > Then it's a bit more extensible. That seems a bit lame though, we may
> > have had the details hashed out a bit better in the past.
> 
> I would prefer a cleaner API, but I wouldn't object to this solution. We
> could then define a small set of common property names for standard
> stuff like comment, gamma, resolution as we do in GIMP for parasites.
> I'll have a look at the gdk-pixbuf-save() implementation...

i'd agree that just supporting comments feels cleaner.
in general, one can't set different types of parasites on images,
so i find an API indicating so misleading.

> 
> Salut, Sven
> 

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