SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click File > Open. 2. Navigate to an *.xcf file. 3. Try to open it. OBSERVED RESULT It does not open and there's an error message that kolourpaint cannot not open *.xcf files. EXPECTED RESULT kolourpaint should open *.xcf files ( made in Gimp ) so I can save it as *.png, as it did in the previous version. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon with kde-runtime ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I have to boot Mint 18.3 ( other partition ) to use the previous version for *.xcf processing.
kolourpaint does not implement the ability to read any file format. This is done by using KDE's imageformat plugins. On my system xcf is handled by /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/imageformats/kimg_xcf.so which is here part of the kimageformats rpm package. Check your installation - something is missing.
This might be a duplicate of bug 360821. GIMP has changed the .xcf image format for GIMP 2.9 and later, so if you also upgraded GIMP, you could check if it is possible to write in the old (GIMP 2.8) format. If not, exporting to any other lossless format (.png or .tiff) should also work.
Created attachment 117388 [details] attachment-714-0.html Thank you for your quick response. I'll give your suggestions a try.In the meantime, I found a go-around. Pix can open Gimp *.xcf images and save them as *.png. Again, thank you,Doug On Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 3:04:49 PM PST, Christoph Feck <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403049 --- Comment #2 from Christoph Feck <cfeck@kde.org> --- This might be a duplicate of bug 360821. GIMP has changed the .xcf image format for GIMP 2.9 and later, so if you also upgraded GIMP, you could check if it is possible to write in the old (GIMP 2.8) format. If not, exporting to any other lossless format (.png or .tiff) should also work.