Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.9 XCF files and digiKam, gnome file browsers, etc

[Boudewijn Rempt <boud valdyas org>]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Elle Stone wrote:

> Is the GIMP 2.9 XCF file format? API? (not sure what the right phrase is) 
> stable enough that it makes sense to hope that other applications like 
> digiKam and various other file browsers and image viewers could start showing 
> thumbnails?
>
> For example, digiKam can create thumbnails for 2.8 XCF files but not for 2.9 
> XCF files.
>
> I'd like to ask the digiKam devs to provide support for showing a thumbnail 
> for GIMP 2.9 XCF files. But if the XCF files are likely to change 
> substantially before 2.10 is released, maybe now is not a good time.

Digikam actually has't got to implement anything itself for that to work. The thumbnails are generated by KIO plugin, the 
full image view by QImageIO plugins. Check git://anongit.kde.org/kimageformats for the imageio plugins (I should move the 
Krita imageio plugins there...) and 
https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kio-extras.git&a=tree&h=d2127aa55d72bfde4c269c75a91a721159548ff6&hb=3d8409f93830cb9bf658bd0648b7b1db3dd5c684&f=thumbnail
 for the thumbnailers.

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