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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kimgio and qimgio : nonsense.
From:       Matt Koss <koss () napri ! sk>
Date:       1999-05-21 15:09:11
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I would suggest rather to make a wrapper for Imlib.
It is really a fast library.

Just look at kuickshow for comparison.

 Regards

		Matt

On Št, 20 máj 1999, David Faure wrote:
>I think the current situation is nonsense.
>We have kimgio, that can't properly save PNG (colors get screwed) and that
>can't save JPG at all.
>In qt there is qimgio, that does all this very well, but which is not installed
>by default, as it is in extensions/
>This mess makes it impossible to save JPGs from kpresenter / ksnapshot / ...
>which is a terrible situation (a presentation converted in BMPs is awfully huge !!)
>
>* What are TT's plans about qimgio ? Will it be really part of Qt one day ?
>(cc'ed to qt-interest about this question)
>* It's opensource, dammit. Why can't we borrow the PNG & JPG saving code from qimgio
> and put it in kimgio ?
>
>We want to get rid of GIF, ok, but for that we need proper tools able to save PNGs and JPGs !
>
>David
> who wonders if there will be a merged [qk]imgio one day, instead of the current nonsense.
>
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