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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A very old problem with animated GIFs
From:       Pavel Troller <patrol () sinus ! cz>
Date:       2002-02-11 5:40:48
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Hi!
  Sorry for returning to this very old problem, but now we have Qt3.0.2 and the
problem is still there... Maybe it's time to fix it now ? Or should we press
the Trolls to fix it ?

                                          With regards, Pavel Troller
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> the problem is known, but will only be fixed once we switch to Qt 3. 
> Basically it's some very rare GIFs using some feature Qt 2.x doesn't support 
> 100% correctly (and can't support because this would break compatibility). It 
> is fixed in Qt3.
> 
> Lars
> 
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 19:28, Pavel Troller wrote:
> > Hi!
> >   Let me reintroduce a problem, which I already discussed with coolo at the
> > end of January 2001. Since then, the problem persists, and even being
> > almost harmless, it's annoying.
> >   The problem is that some animated GIFs with transparent background are
> > animated incorrectly in konqueror  - the background is filled with random
> > patterns in some frames.
> >   As an example, try http://www.sinus.cz/~patrol/r_zpe_on.gif (C&P'd just
> > from konq, I hope the URL is correct :-)).
> >   The dog should move his hand but the background should stay the same.
> > Note that in a VERY RARE case, it works well, probably because the random
> > pattern is just all 0's.
> >   The problem is very weird - not all images are doing it, even coming from
> > the same site, created by the same person with the same program, using the
> > sam colors etc.
> >   I think it's a time to fix it finally, but I'm too dumb for doing it
> > myself :-(
> >                                     With regards, Pavel Troller
> >
 
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