Re: Using GdkPixmaps for storing static image data

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"J. Ali Harlow" <gtk-list optosun7 city ac uk> writes: 
> Except that there's no concept of a shareable Pixbuf. When you are sending
> large amounts of raster data from client-side to server-side on a regular basis
> shared images make a large difference. I've no idea whether this is a common
> requirement for applications. We need to do it when we start using complicated
> transparancy algorithms which can't be done server-side. Perhaps we're a little
> unusual in this regard in the GTK+ world.

It's not very common, no. ;-) GdkImage will continue to exist for
people who need that low-level control of course.
 
> Might I suggest that the API be expanded to provide a function to do this at
> some point in the life of Gdk?
> 

bugzilla.gnome.org is the place for suggestions, if you want to be
sure they don't get forgotten. 

Havoc