sorry for the late response, busy doing other things but now that I have a chance I have to clarify what I said.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Aaron Spike wrote:
probably take that advice and "deprecate" it. If you could export to a/the defacto standard format like PSD it would offer plenty more options when it comes to software for animating those layers.
I can't help but feel a little annoyed at the suggestion that we deprecate this feature.
XCF is a format only one program understands well and others are discouraged from using it although a few others do understand it. I dislike vendor lockin irrespective of the vendor and the lack of open standards undermines the value open source or free software might have. The feature is good but a more widely understood format would be preferable.
The extension USES GIMP to create the XCF (thus the requirement for a cli version of Gimp) and so does not violate the wishes of the Gimp
okay so it uses the gimp directly, and avoids any of the hiccups or which might occur from using anything else.
thinking about the problem futher the gimp does have SVG import which might prove a better approach for integration, but that may well be what you are using underneath.
between Gimp and Inkscape. XCF is the appropriate format for this task not PSD.
True but in this case the task the user was asking about was working with Photoshop, in which case PSD would be a better choice and since PSD was standardised in a limited way and is understood by many different applications it is a better choice in general (unless maybe you are a dedicated gimp user).