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Bug 539138 - support for writing GIFs
support for writing GIFs
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gdk-pixbuf
Classification: Platform
Component: general
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gdk-pixbuf-maint
gdk-pixbuf-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-19 14:16 UTC by David McKelvie
Modified: 2011-12-16 23:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description David McKelvie 2008-06-19 14:16:04 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When viewing a .gif file and trying to save it to a different location
I get the following error message.

File format is unknown or unsupported

Eye of GNOME could not determine a supported writable file format based on the filename.
Please try a different file extension like .png or .jpg.

Steps to reproduce:
1. View a foo.gif file
2. Try to save as a different file bar.gif
3. 


Actual results:
I get a popup window with the text

File format is unknown or unsupported

Eye of GNOME could not determine a supported writable file format based on the filename.
Please try a different file extension like .png or .jpg.

Expected results:
That a new file bar.gif is written

Does this happen every time?
Yes, recently.

Other information:
Ubuntu Hardy
Comment 1 Felix Riemann 2008-06-19 18:31:16 UTC 
This is because the GIF plugin of gdk-pixbuf (which provides image loading/saving for eog) doesn't support writing GIFs.

Reassigning.
Comment 2 peggysmouse 2011-06-07 22:15:32 UTC 
I can confirm this behaviour on Ubuntu 11.04. I've tried with EOG and gThumb 2.13.1.

The behaviour with EOG is as described above. The gThumb simply stalls at the save screen.

Has this bug really been around for 3 years?
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2011-12-16 23:37:47 UTC 
Not going to do this - gdk-pixbuf is not really a generic write-images-in-any-format library.