Review Request 113510: Deprecate methods in kimageio

[David Faure]

On Saturday 02 November 2013 22:36:03 Alex Merry wrote:
> Moving this to the list.
> 
> On 02/11/13 19:36, David Faure wrote:
> >     On November 2nd, 2013, 6:21 p.m. UTC, *Alex Merry* wrote:
> >         Related question: would it make sense to try to implement this by
> >         directly enumerating the QImageIO plugins (and reading their JSON
> >         files)?  Possibly with some hacks for the built-in decoders. 
> >         Because it looks to me like we could then ditch the .desktop
> >         files for the plugins (including the ones for Qt's own
> >         plugins/built-in code).> 
> > If we want to get rid of the .desktop files, why don't we just implement
> > KImageIO on top of QImageReader/Writer, rather than duplicate its code?
> Only that QImageReader/Writer do not make it easy to correlate mimetypes
> and image format names.

Right. But do we still need image format names?

(I guess the answer lies in http://lxr.kde.org/ident?i=KImageIO but I didn't 
dig into it yet)

And if we do need this, how about we add that feature to QImageReader/Writer 
instead?

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