Kimageio removal

Szombathelyi György gyurco at freemail.hu
Mon Jan 16 12:19:03 GMT 2006


Now I re-added KImageIO with minimal functionality, using .desktop files 
instead of .kimgio files.
Please consider it as a port for KDE4 :)
If you see design problems with this approach, please tell me, I'll try 
to fix.

Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:37, Szombathelyi György wrote:
>> And does it matter?
> 
> Like Waldo mentioned it depends on what kind of policy we adopt for 
> porting. If we'll decide that the installation can live next to each 
> other then yeah, it's a problem. Furthermore when I converted KImageIO 
> to Qt4 I didn't remove for a very simple reason, to query what plugins 
> are support via qimage[reader/writer] it has to load the plugins to 
> figure out what format they provide. kimageio didn't have to do that. 
> it's not a terribly hard problem but i didn't feel like dealing with it 
> then. you kinda ignored it, which is another option =) 
> 
> Zack
> 





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