From: Tor Lillqvist <tml@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:02:43 +0300 (FLE Daylight Time)
> I got now several emails from users with the wish to add XCF reading
> support in my viewer.
I don't know if that is a good idea. XCF is really the GIMP's own
private format for saving images between editing sessions, it is not
intended for interoperability with other applications. Or what do you
folks on gimp-developer think?
The last thing the world needs is more undocumented, proprietary file
formats.
I realize that "proprietary" has a subtly different meaning from the
closed source world, but it's the same idea. It does nobody any good
if the file can't be read without firing up the Gimp.
