This is what the KDE maillist had to say about GIFs.  I don't know how
our QT is configured, though...

~Steve



Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:47:53 -0400
From: Andreas Pour <pour@mieterra.com>
To: KDE general mailing list <kde@lists.netcentral.net>
Subject: Re: KDE 1.1.2 GIF troubles


Hello,

This most likely has to do with qt-1.44, which has GIF support disabled by
default.  This was discussed earlier today on this list ;-).  Read the
README.

Regards,

Andreas Pour


Simon Bates wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Let me begin my saying congratulations and thank you to all the KDE
> developers for doing a great job :-)
>
> I have recently built KDE 1.1.2 from the source tar balls and seem to be
> having troubles with GIFs. I have built kfm and kview, from kdebase-1.1.2
> and kdegraphics-1.1.2 respectively, and neither of them seem to be able
> to view GIFs.
>
> I built libgif from kdesupport-1.1.2 and it seems to have built correctly.
>
> It there some flag that I need to set to enable GIFs or is the problem
> deeper than that ?
>
> I am running a Linux system originally based on Redhat 5.2
> I am using gcc version 2.95
>
> Thank you very much,
> Simon Bates.
>

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