[Pidgin] #2067: Support for Animated GIFs (MSN, AIM, ICQ, YAHOO) Buddy Icons

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#2067: Support for Animated GIFs (MSN, AIM, ICQ, YAHOO) Buddy Icons
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 Reporter:  praveenmarkandu  |        Owner:              
     Type:  task             |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:                   |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.0.2            |   Resolution:  wontfix     
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment(by IlRazziatore):

 I read the comment ( and i post the comment about the Animated PNG ).

 1] Read and save gif. You nead GTK write/read the file for you? Why?
 Pidgin can't use other library? If GTK can't sand message pidgin don't
 send message? Pidgin ins't a front end of GTK, GTK is only one of library
 Pidgin use. If GKT don't read/write GIF file okay you can use an other
 library or read/wirte file your-self.

 Legaly you can't read the gif as image but no-one can say nothing to you
 if you semply read the byte and copy it.

 When Pidgin recived an gif animated it display it, why not save it? You
 can't write a simply dump file rutine?

 If you want i do it for you ( and i will do that myself but i don't
 understend wher put it in the pidgin source structure... )

 You say isn't a Pidgin problem, I do not agree.

 2] The animated emotions how are send? As File ( all the file in raw mode,
 with header ... ) or as an uncompressed animation?

 If animated emotiocns are sand as raw file, you don't need decopress it
 you don't need "read" it. You don't need a library ( GTK ) read it for
 you. You nead only read the file ( and the file system do that for you )
 and sand byte by byte the file.

 If animated emoticons are sand as uncompressed animations... why don't use
 APNG localy?

 3] You say "APNG wouldn't be all that useful anyway if other clients can't
 read them either".

 I'm not agree again. I use Pidgin, my sister use Pidgin, a lot of my
 friend use Pidgin. Why we can't use APNG between us?

 eMule extend the eDonkey protocol, at the begin no-one have eMule but this
 did not important. If two people had eMule they used the new feature
 otherwise no, patience.

 We don't must run after someone sometimes you can even overcome.

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 There are 3 tickets duplicate of this so the user want this features...
 You are always convinced that it isn't a Pidgin problem?

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