painting images from imlib2 with cairo

[wujek-srujek]

painting images from imlib2 with cairo

[plikhari]

From what I have understood - cairo does not use imlib2 - and cairo needs to interact with lua - and so far the support is only for png images.

Most people look at cairo with python or c bindings and get all excited - but here we have cairo with lua bindings - to put things into perspective.

So if we have images that are non png - I use Imagemagick to manipulate and display it with lua + cairo.

We can close this as it is beyond the scope of conky + lua + cairo at present time.

[mswanson-me]

Is this issue still outstanding in the current version of Conky? If so, please update this issue. Otherwise, the issue will be closed in 2 weeks.

[zcot]

As far as I can tell the aforementioned example doesn't work. See random sample here: https://gist.github.com/wxg4net/7210517

It is possible to use the imlib2 stuff but I'm not aware of being able to intermix it with cairo like that exactly. You can do transparency with imlib but are limited once you don't have png specifically, and I'm not aware of any cairo transparency image function directly, so you need to mix them, and it may not be possible.

Is there any documentation on that issue directly?

If someone wants a non-png watermark, is it possible? Can you directly use a jpg as a transparent image?

[lasers]

@plikhari Are you able to help here?

[lasers]

We can close this as it is beyond the scope of conky + lua + cairo at present time.

Sounds good to me. This issue has been left open for a little too long.
Rounding the duration up to 5 years, 1 month, 11 days.

@wujek-srujek @zcot, I hope you find the above comment useful. I'll be closing this. If you had found your answers long ago or had some more information to share, please share them with us. Thank you.