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

[Boudewijn Rempt <boud valdyas org>]

yn Sun, 3 Jan 2016, Elle Stone wrote:

> On 01/03/2016 03:04 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Elle Stone wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Boudewijn, thanks! for the information. On KDE bugzilla, would a request for 
> supporting GIMP 2.9 XCF files go under "product: kdelibs, component: kimgio"?

I think it's rather frameworks-kimageformats

> Is there any kind of concensus as to whether the GIMP 2.9 XCF file format 
> stable enough that it would it be worth filing a bug report/enhancement 
> request for support for GIMP 2.9 XCF files?

I don't know :-) I would personally wait until the stable release.

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