Re: API Freeze Schedule and outstanding API bugs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> writes:
> 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.
> 

The thing to do is probably to add support for third-party loaders to
gdk-pixbuf and then distribute the loader with Gimp, or something.

Third-party loader support doesn't sound likely post-freeze though.

Havoc