KDE 3.0 Requirements

[Holger Freyther]

Am Wednesday 03 April 2002 13:36 schrieb Alex Zepeda:
> 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
If you want to drop a better image loading you could do it. If you want to 
abandon partial image loading from khtml you could do it.

> 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