GIMP can use darktable to open a RAW file if the darktable executable is on the PATH. If the GIMP user opens a RAW file, then GIMP invokes darktable with some special command line parameters to get a temporary file for GIMP to work with. It uses these com
There is no provision for dealing with the xcf files generated by GIMP, since darktable doesn’t deal with them. You may want to save the xcf file if you intend on doing further edits to the image or need to save the layers used.
Tutorial on how to install Darktable, how to use it to develop RAW files and how to import those RAW directly in Gimp. Darktable is a free software for RAW files development, it can work independently, as a standalone program, but it is also perfectly com