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How hard would it be to display the contents of an image file on the screen?

I want to view a picture of a funny cat I found on the web. How hard can it be?

In the meantime, KDE got better enough to not bother me as much, and the exciting task of figuring out how to draw two textured triangles with Vulkan, potentially using two different GPU drivers at the same time, became rather tedious, so the project was shelved. The only upside, compared to the Wayland situation, is that there’s already a good protocol implementation existing that I can just use, instead of waiting for these endless debates to finally figure out the most simple and obvious things. Google’s copying of the Java SE API, which included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program, was a fair use of that material as a matter of law

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