state of kdefx (again), BC exemption request

[Clarence Dang]

On Friday 20 July 2007 12:09, Maksim Orlovich wrote:
> > (I'm CC'ing kde-devel, if you have code that you know uses kdefx please
> > read and offer comments if you have any.)
>
> I suggest using lxr.kde.org

KolourPaint uses KImageEffect::(flatten,emboss,blur,sharpen}().

> > - The library has, AFAIK, not had any major review, and has things like
> > gradient generators that appear to be obsolete in Qt4.
>
> These are hardly a big issue. 99% of KImageEffect OTOH is useless and
> probably doesn't even work.

I'm using an old checkout of kdelibs (-r669659 2007-05-30) and the above image 
effects all crash:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1208797504 (LWP 6190)]
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
0x003e4d44 in convolveImage () from /home/kde4/dist/lib/libkdefx.so.5
(gdb)
(gdb) bt
#0  0x003e4d44 in convolveImage () from /home/kde4/dist/lib/libkdefx.so.5
#1  0x003e846a in KImageEffect::sharpen ()
   from /home/kde4/dist/lib/libkdefx.so.5

In any case, I think KolourPaint can live without them.  Though, it would be 
nice to have replacements esp. for blur and sharpen.

Clarence