Comment 11 for bug 1982898

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Joshua Peisach (itzswirlz) wrote :

I can confirm for myself now aswell that I am experiencing issues. Some applications, most of them listed above in one way or another can be found to properly be unable to handle these images.

Gdk-pixbuf still crashes but no longer is a buffer overwrite. Technically a win - but the key issue is apps do not know how to respond to what to do when gdk-pixbuf dies.

Take eye of gnome - if you open a file directly from terminal using one of the POCs, it is fine and reads the gdk-pixbuf error correctly. But cycle to the next POC and it crashes.

Probably a lot of this is apps being tied into gdk-pixbuf, and if I am correct it is a part of Gtk so apps are sort of forced to be connected to it. When one breaks down, it's like a cable wire. In the future, for stability purposes patches need to be made to apps so whenever a component like gdk-pixbuf fails, the rest of the app doesn't (or has some fallback state)