[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:                   |   Launchpad_bug:              
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Comment(by deryni):

 To reiterate what has been said here a number of times, the problem is
 that GTK+ (specifically the gdk-pixbuf library) does not supporting
 writing gif files, as such pidgin does not support it. The correct place
 to add support for writing gif files is in gdk-pixbuf, if you wish to
 submit a patch to the GTK+ people which adds support for this you should
 talk to them about it. Until then there are potential ways of working
 around this issue in pidgin which could be implemented if someone so
 desired (specifically copying from the raw image stored in the cache as
 opposed to writing the image out from the GdkPixbuf), but again someone
 with the need for this feature would need to write the patch.

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