GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 66497
Can't view PNG images
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Galeon does not render any PNG files. Mozilla 0.96 seems to render them OK. There is an example at http://www.pdmc.de/public/evo_shot.png
Created attachment 6187 [details] This is how galeon renders a PNG image...
its a local misconfiguration, you are either using a plugin that hijacks the png mime type , or you have some how misconfigured the galeom mime settings try removing all the active plugins and clearing your galeon settings
I don't think that's it. It seems to be a clash of different png libraries. When I run galeon from the command line and attempt to view a png file, I get this error: [ujwal@vedanta ujwal]$ galeon libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.0 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12 libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in application and library I have the following png libraries installed: libpng3-1.2.0-3mdk libpng2-devel-1.0.12-2mdk libpng2-1.0.12-2mdk libpng3-devel-1.2.0-3mdk libpng2 is used needed by kedevelop.
this should have been in the first bugreport its still not a galeon problem you should use the galeon packages for your platform
It wasn't in the first report since I did not know where to start looking, and I am not in the habit of starting my browser in a terminal window... I am running galeon as pakaged by Mandrake (Cooker). I even tried rebuilding the src RPM, but still no luck. Well, yet another unresolved issue...
OK, I finally got it working, but at a price. It seems to be a severely screwed up problem in library dependencies and packaging for Mandrake. Here is the scoop: 1. To display PNG, mozilla-0.96 seems to call on libpng.so.3; Display is OK. 2. Galeon seems to call imlib first? Why? Shouldn't all rendering be handled by mozilla? 3. imlib is built against libpng.so.2 4. I am still not sure where exactly the clash is between libpng.so.2 and libpng.so.3 is. 5. I built imlib against libpng.so.3, but too much of gnome core broke Solution: I downgraded to mozilla-0.95 that depends on libpng.so.2, and rebuilt galeon from scratch.
thanks for following up my hm...somehow rude reply with helpful information, I think i am going to use this bug as a pointer for other mandrake users imlib is still used by gnome core because of the legacy thats inherited in the 1.x series it is entirely replaced by gdk-pixbuf in 2.0
Cool. No problem.