[kde-linux] konqueror won't open .GIF images

[Jim Philips]

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 18:21, John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 16:50, Jim Philips wrote:
> > Did you upgrade QT lately? If so, maybe it was built without gif support.
> > That has happened to me several times, in my inexplicable need to build
> > things from scratch.
>
> Why would GIF support go missing?   Gif copyright/patent (or what-ever)
> expired, The IBM one expires in 3 days, but in the mean time IBM has
> already opensourced it.

I don't know that it has anything to do with all of that. But if you build QT 
from source, there is a configure option to specifically enable GIF support. 
If you build it without that option, then all KDE apps will give you only a 
broken image symbol where the GIF ought to be. This has been true since the 
early days of QT. For whatever reasons, the people who built the distro may 
have left it out, either intentionally or unintentionally.