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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re:should khtmlw use kimgio?
From:       weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date:       1998-10-30 1:24:09
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Hi,

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, bastian wrote:

> | Hi,
> 
> | I was wondering if the khtmlw lib shouldn't use th kimgio library for
> | loading images. This will give the html-widget automatic access to all
> | image formats kimgio understands. 
> | so I did the changes, and do now have khtmlw (and kfm and kmail as
> | programs using khtmlw) running using kimgio. 
> | There is however one problem. This approach will require all programs
> | using khtmlw to link against kimgio too. Thus the change would be
> | binary incompatible and require all programs using khtmlw (kfm, kmail,
> | krn... are there others?) to add $(LIB_KIMGIO) to the libs to link with.
> 
> | So should I commit the changes (tomorrow, if at all, since I'm going
> | home now)? Oppinions?
> 
> Do animated GIFs still work? Are they handled by KImgio or by Qt?
> I don't think any of the khtmlw developers ever cared about binary 
> compatibility >:) If it works, commit it.
> 
> BTW I had a nice idea to cache images in memory in khtmlw (or perhaps
> kimgio?) 
> (KFM chaches images on disk) Are you interested?

KFMIII has a more clever cache and wil cache in memory and swap to
disk on demand. But if khtmlw features a nice solution I would
use this one, too.

Bye
Torben

> Cheers,
> Waldo
> --
> bastian@kde.org  Patcher of the HTML Widget, Lord of the broken Tag
> 
> 

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