Re: API Freeze Schedule and outstanding API bugs

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> writes:

> As far as XCF is concerned: the next version of XCF will have a preview 
> included at the beginning of the XCF file and we will contribute a 
> gdk-pixbuf loader for it. Gimp will also most probably switch from xv 
> style thumbnails to the format Nautilus uses (PNG files in .thumbnails 
> dir). Just to let you know.

There is a (large) patch to add an XCF loader for gdk-pixbuf.  Since
it uses code from the GIMP, though, it can't be included in gdk-pixbuf
as the GIMP source is licensed under the GPL.

  Federico