imageformat plugins

[Christoph Feck]

On Tuesday 26 November 2013 01:54:16 Alex Merry wrote:
> It occurred to me that KGuiAddons might not be the best place for
> the imageformat plugins, and that they should maybe become their
> own framework (either tier1 or tier4).
> 
> The only thing that relates the KGuiAddons library and the
> imageformat plugins is that they are both to do with QtGui.  Each
> can be used without the other just fine, and there is no
> particular reason why someone wanting the library should want to
> install the plugins or vice versa.
> 
> What do other people think about this?

Separate. Btw, on Qt development list, there are currently discussions 
about including JP2 and DDS format plugins to Qt repositories, so I am 
not sure how much of KImgIO will need to survive in the future. What 
remains could even be upstreamed to QtImageFormats repository?

Christoph Feck (kdepepo)