[Pan-users] Feature Request: "Progressive Image Loading" (GdkPixBufLoader).

[Arnd Marijnissen]

It would be very nice to have the inline image-display code being
replaced/improved by using the GdkPixbufLoader facility that allows you to
view images "while they load" (like you're used to in web-browsers, etc).

The handiness of this feature is directly apparent when browsing through
image news-groups with large collections of images.
Being able to identify a "beaver" picture from the kind of images you were
looking for (or visa-versa) at an early stage is "Something Good (TM)" on
slower connections.

Since the 0.12.0 release seems to have gone for Gtk2.0 in a big way and
Gtk2.0 has this feature available via the GdkPixbufLoader (providing
support for animations (gif89a, i believe ?), it should be "do-able"
without having to write your own imaga-parsing routines from scratch.

I've browsed through the postings, looking for similar requests of this
type but couldnt find any in the half-hour i spent on it, so if this
request is redundant, feel free to ignore/flame ;)

-- 
 JustaCat