Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.1) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages This patch adds a kimgio plugin for the DDS file format. DDS stands for direct draw surface. DDS files are usually used on games and demos, because it uses the same compression that the hardware uses. In this plugin, decompression is done in software, though. So, you don't need hardware support to use it. It also supports cubemaps displaying them unfolded. http://castano.ludicon.com/files/kde/kimgio_dds-2004-02-10.patch
Your site appears to be down. Can you email it to me (bradh@frogmouth.net), or attach it to the patch. Attaching a sample image (or at least a link to one) would also be useful.
You can find more info about the patch as well as some screenshots here: http://castano.ludicon.com/files/kde/ I've also provided separate files in case you just want to add dds support to your own Qt app, but in my opinion it would be nice to add this to kde. I think it would be a good idea to move strange file formats to kdegraphics and leave in kdelibs only the most common ones.
Any chance this could be added before the 3.3 release? I've been using this kimgio plugin for some time now and it seems to work fine on all the files that I've tested, and I can't say the same about other file formats (ie. tga). I've also optimized it to use scanline() instead of setPixel() and I'm willing to provide support if anybody has problem with the plugin. I would really like to see this added to kde and that would probably encourage me to provide additional contributions.
CVS commit by waba: Support for .dds files by Ignacio Casta