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Win 7 icons crutledge 06 Feb 14:44
  Win 7 icons Kevin Cozens 06 Feb 18:14
  Win 7 icons Quual 25 Nov 20:16
Win 7 icons Jernej Simončič 06 Feb 19:22
crutledge
2011-02-06 14:44:33 UTC (about 14 years ago)
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Win 7 icons

When I was running GIMP 2+ under Win XP all icons of *.xcf displayed the image in the icon.

Under Win 7, only the GIMP icon is displaed. Is there a CODEC or other method to have the *.xcf image to display properly as an icon?

Kevin Cozens
2011-02-06 18:14:00 UTC (about 14 years ago)

Win 7 icons

crutledge wrote:

When I was running GIMP 2+ under Win XP all icons of *.xcf displayed the image in the icon.

Under Win 7, only the GIMP icon is displaed. Is there a CODEC or other method to have the *.xcf image to display properly as an icon?

The problems is one of file associations and nothing to do with codecs. The GIMP installer should (allow you to) set the file extensions for you. If it hasn't done this, you can right click an image, select "Open With", select the program that will be used to open the file (in this case GIMP), then click the checkbox to say "always use this program". All image files with extensions matching the type of the image you selected will appear with the GIMP icon. Repeat the above for other image types you want to default to being opened with GIMP.

The above is based on what I used to do in Windows XP. The steps should be similar in Windows 7.

Jernej Simončič
2011-02-06 19:22:47 UTC (about 14 years ago)

Win 7 icons

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:44:33 +0100, crutledge wrote:

When I was running GIMP 2+ under Win XP all icons of *.xcf displayed the image in the icon.

Under Win 7, only the GIMP icon is displaed. Is there a CODEC or other method to have the *.xcf image to display properly as an icon?

You probably had a 3rd party program that understands GIMP's XCF format installed on XP - there is nothing included in GIMP that would give you thumbnails in Windows Explorer.

Quual
2012-11-25 20:16:16 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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Win 7 icons

When I was running GIMP 2+ under Win XP all icons of *.xcf displayed the image in the icon.

Under Win 7, only the GIMP icon is displaed. Is there a CODEC or other method to have the *.xcf image to display properly as an icon?

There is a Windows Explorer extension that creates thumbnails for a large number of image types including .xcf. Its called Sagethumbs and integrates into the explorer shell very well.

i personally have version 2.0.0.15 installed on my Win7 64 bit system, and with it installed I see thumbnails of xcf files in all 8 explorer views; content, tiles, details, list, small icons, med icons, large icons, and x-large icons.

It needs administrator privileges to install correctly on Win 7, so right click on the downloaded file and select run as an administrator. Didn't even need a reboot.