Editing GDK (section)

=={{Anchor|GDKPIXBUF}}gdk-pixbuf==
gdk-pixbuf is a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. The library provides image loading and saving facilities, fast scaling and compositing of pixbufs, simple animation loading (i.e. animated GIFs), and rendering the libart image buffer to a GdkDrawable instance.

gdk-pixbuf has a fairly large API.

The fundamental structure in the gdk-pixbuf library is GdkPixbuf, a private, opaque data structure that mirrors many of the same concepts that ArtPixBuf supports. In fact, most of GdkPixbuf's private data fields have the same names and data types as the corresponding ones in ArtPixBuf. This similarity dates back to the earlier days when gdk-pixbuf was a wrapper around [[libart]]. Since that time, the libart dependency has been stripped out, and gdk-pixbuf was merged into the GTK+ 2.0 code base. As such, gdk-pixbuf's days as a standalone library are limited to the [[GNOME 1]] release.

With the release of GTK+ 2.22 on 2010-09-23, gdk-pixbuf has been turned back into a standalone library, after being shipped as part of GTK+ since gtk+ 2.0. This was done in preparation for the transition to GTK+ 3.

* https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/

The first stand-alone release was [https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2010-September/msg00119.html 2.22] on 2010-Sep-21, its development started with [https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2010-June/msg00171.html 2.21.3] on 2010-06-23.