diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b94a1d2bfa..730123e5dd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-12-20  Michael Natterer  <mitch@gimp.org>
+
+	* app/widgets/gimpdnd.[ch]: changed unused SVG dnd API to speak in
+	terms of "guchar *data", "gint data_len" instead of GimpVectors.
+
 2003-12-20  Michael Natterer  <mitch@gimp.org>
 
 	* app/widgets/gimpdnd.h: sanitized DND identifiers
diff --git a/app/widgets/gimpdnd.c b/app/widgets/gimpdnd.c
index 4a4daf1fba..28c3202208 100644
--- a/app/widgets/gimpdnd.c
+++ b/app/widgets/gimpdnd.c
@@ -1406,17 +1406,16 @@ gimp_dnd_get_svg_data (GtkWidget *widget,
                        gint      *format,
                        gint      *length)
 {
-  GimpVectors *vectors;
-  guint8      *vals;
+  guchar *svg_data;
+  gint    svg_data_length;
 
-  vectors = (* (GimpDndDragSvgFunc) get_svg_func) (widget, get_svg_data);
+  svg_data = (* (GimpDndDragSvgFunc) get_svg_func) (widget, &svg_data_length,
+                                                    get_svg_data);
 
-  vals = NULL;
+  *format = 8;
+  *length = svg_data_length;
 
-  *format = 0;
-  *length = 0;
-
-  return (guchar *) vals;
+  return svg_data;
 }
 
 static void
@@ -1427,20 +1426,13 @@ gimp_dnd_set_svg_data (GtkWidget *widget,
                        gint       format,
                        gint       length)
 {
-  GimpVectors *vectors;
-  guint8      *svg_data;
-
   if (format != 8)
     {
       g_warning ("Received invalid SVG data!");
       return;
     }
 
-  svg_data = (guint8 *) vals;
-
-  vectors = NULL;
-
-  (* (GimpDndDropSvgFunc) set_svg_func) (widget, vectors, set_svg_data);
+  (* (GimpDndDropSvgFunc) set_svg_func) (widget, vals, length, set_svg_data);
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/app/widgets/gimpdnd.h b/app/widgets/gimpdnd.h
index e37b0e31f9..6510bb3a84 100644
--- a/app/widgets/gimpdnd.h
+++ b/app/widgets/gimpdnd.h
@@ -168,11 +168,13 @@ void  gimp_dnd_color_dest_remove   (GtkWidget            *widget);
 
 /*  svg dnd functions  */
 
-typedef GimpVectors * (* GimpDndDragSvgFunc) (GtkWidget     *widget,
-                                              gpointer       data);
-typedef void          (* GimpDndDropSvgFunc) (GtkWidget     *widget,
-                                              GimpVectors   *vectors,
-                                              gpointer       data);
+typedef guchar * (* GimpDndDragSvgFunc) (GtkWidget    *widget,
+                                         gint         *svg_data_len,
+                                         gpointer      data);
+typedef void     (* GimpDndDropSvgFunc) (GtkWidget    *widget,
+                                         const guchar *svg_data,
+                                         gint          svg_data_len,
+                                         gpointer      data);
 
 void  gimp_dnd_svg_source_add    (GtkWidget          *widget,
                                   GimpDndDragSvgFunc  get_svg_func,