Re: Interface Proposal

[Fred Kiefer]

Isn't imlib the image processing library from Gnome, that they are just 
about to give up in favour of libart and gdkpixbuf?
I do agree that GNUstep needs far better image handling, and that we 
cannot write this ourselves. But I am not that much into graphics to 
know which library to choose.

Adam Fedor wrote:

> I personally think that one great advantage that the Free Software 
> community has over commercial/proprietary solutions is the ability to 
> share and use code that other people have written.  I can't say whether 
> imlib2 is the best library for this. That's another topic.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Mondragon, Ian [mailto:ian.mondragon@bankofamerica.com]
>     Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:51 AM
>     To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
>     Cc: copal@dragonhelix.org
>     Subject: Interface Proposal
>
>     All -
>
>       I was wondering what people in the GNUstep community would think
>     of utilizing Imlib2 for image handling in Interface?  For? 
>     Against?  Reasons?  Alternatives?
>
>       I truly have no interest in re-implementing any image handling
>     routines myself, and would like to have something very robust and
>     flexible in place.