KDE 3.0 Requirements

Alex Zepeda jazepeda at pacbell.net
Wed Apr 3 12:36:37 BST 2002


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 April 2002 22:11, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:16:53PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > >   * libtiff (for fax software)
> > > >   * libpng / libjpeg (for viewing images)
> > >
> > > libmng too.
> >
> > Does KDE use/need libpng/jpeg or can the Qt built-in stuffs be used?
>
> khtml is using libjpeg, but other than that png/mng is purely Qt afaik

Hmm.  IMO it would be nice to see khtml move to use the Qt classes and
have KDE drop yet another dependency.  Even so, yay for not tracking
moving dependencies.  Building KDE (esp. from source without the heavy
hand of a package system) has proven to be so much less painful than
building Gnome.

- alex




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