Creating a favicon.ico file with The Gimp

Because Gimp 2.0 doesn’t support the Windows icon format yet, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X.

The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task:

• ppmtowinicon is said to have problems with transparency
• xpm2wico is not available as a Fink package
• png2ico did the trick for me