If you intend to work on any of these issues, please contact Federico Mena-Quintero (federico@helixcode.com). * The loaders don't deal with exhausted memory conditions very gracefully. For example, around io-jpeg.c:466: context->pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new(GDK_COLORSPACE_RGB, FALSE, 8, cinfo->image_width, cinfo->image_height); if (context->pixbuf == NULL) { /* Failed to allocate memory */ g_error ("Couldn't allocate gdkpixbuf"); } This should *not* abort the program, but return an error condition to the loader instead. We do not have very good error reporting overall in the loading functions, either the synchronous file loaders or the progressive loaders. We should figure out some common errors (out of memory, file not found, corrupted data, incomplete data, etc.) and add return values for them. Yes, this means yet another API change. Live with it. * The pixops functions could use better sanity checks. * We could use some functions for doing full affine transformations, without using libart. * gnome-canvas-pixbuf needs to be optimized. * We need a good stress-test suite!!! Some nongraphical regression tests for `make check' would be nice. * We need complete programmer's documentation.