[kde-linux] some of KDE-3.5 won't do JPEGs [FIXED]

[James Richard Tyrer]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> On Monday 08 October 2007, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>> My motherboard died so I have upgraded from a K6 III to a Athlon.
>>>
>>> I rebuilt KDE and Qt for the new architecture and now some of the
>>> apps won't render JPEGs.
>>>
>>> I have checked and I have the file:
>>>
>>> $QTDIR/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.so
>>>
>>> and it was recompiled.  Removed it and did it again to make sure.
>>>
>>> The specific problems are that: KView (and the kparts for it) and
>>> KPat won't render JPEG files.  Other apps, specifically GwenView,
>>> work OK.
>> They might not be using the Qt image plugins, but some other
>> framework, e.g. the library from image magick or imlib
> 
> Hello
> Kevin
> 
> Yes, it appears that KView does use imlib.  I did some rebuilding and it
> didn't help.  I note that KuickShow also uses imlib and it will display
> JPEG files with no problems.
> 
> So, now I am more puzzled.
> 
> I hope that this isn't another issue with old libraries.  GNOME stopped 
> maintaining imlib with version 1.9.15 released 24-Sep-2004 as GNOME no 
> longer uses it for new releases.
> 
> Enlightenment came out with a new version Imlib2 which is not binary 
> compatible.
> 
> 	http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/libs&l=en
> 	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2
> 
> So, it appears that we should have either adopted imlib or switched to 
> Imlib2.
> 
Something didn't rebuild correctly when I upgraded some libraries and my 
processor setting.  I found an unrelated problem in Qt and rebuilt it. 
Then when I rebuilt KDE against the new build of Qt, the problem went 
away.  I don't know the exact cause.

-- 
JRT