Re: [Gimp-developer] xcf.gz Format

[Mukund Sivaraman <muks banu com>]

Hi Anke

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:17:10PM +0200, Anke Lange wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> it looks like, you can't open xcf.gz-files with gimp2.8 anymore. I
> always found this format very handy, espacially, when you don't have
> a big harddrive.
> Will there be a possibility to return the format back into gimp 2.8 ?

GIMP 2.8 should open .xcf.gz files properly. Support for compressed
files was not removed, but we changed how this was implemented.

Could it be that you are bitten by this bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676916

		Mukund