[compiz] Features for image loader plugins

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Wed Jul 11 15:32:01 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:01 +0200, Patrick Niklaus wrote:
> I just found out that the old specification for this were
> "imageext:..." so I attached a new patch to use this instead. Also I
> fixed my indention to use compiz style.
> 
> Regards,
> Patrick
> 
> 2007/6/13, Patrick Niklaus <patrick.niklaus at googlemail.com>:
> > Hi,
> > I just noticed that the current image loader plugins such as PNG, SVG
> > and JPEG don't provide a feature as they used to do. This is needed
> > for conflict checking and feature testing (e.g. by the settings
> > manager). If I remember correctly this plugins had features before the
> > metadata port so I did a patch to add them again.
> > What do you think about that?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrick
> >
> >

Why both
+       <feature>imageext:png</feature>
and
+       <feature>imageext:image/png</feature>
?
Backward compatibility? In which case it might make sense to abandon the
old way as the configuration utility needs to be updated to fetch the
feature from the metadata anyhow.

-David



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