G'MIC in GIMP Appimage

[henry88g]

Hello - I've been trying the GIMP 2.99 Appimages with plugins, but can't see G'MIC in the filter dropdown window or the plugin explorer. The plugins are in ~/.config/GIMP-Appimage/plug-ins. Have I missed something? I haven't triggered the desktop integration processes - could that be it? I expect it's something simple, but ... Any answer would be great.

I'd also love to integrate xsane, would that mean rebuilding the Appimage, or should I be able to add the location of the xsane plugin from another GIMP installation to the plug-ins directories list in Preferences? Or is this too simplistic? Regards, Henry

[aferrero2707]

That's strange, I will have a look.

Concerning xsane, I doubt that an external plug-in would work. Also, in my experience such plug-ins that require low-level interactions with the system do not play well with the AppImage concept. I have been unsuccesfully struggling with gutenprint in the past... Anyhow, I will look at that as well. Could you please open a new feature request issue for that, so that we can better track the progresses?

[henry88g]

Thanks very much for agreeing to look at this.

[henry88g]

For what it's worth, G'MIC appears and works fine in the 2.10 Appimage. It just doesn't show up at all in the 2.99 Appimage. The plugin folders shown in Preferences in both Appimages have the gmic_qt entry. Thoughts appreciated as and when - and Happy New Year to you.

[henry88g]

Any further ideas on the absence of G'MIC in the 2.99 Appimage?

[aferrero2707]

I didn't have time to look into that yet, sorry.

Could you eventually post the console messages you get when running the 2.99 appimage? There might be some indication of why GMIC doesn't work...

Thanks!

[KenLidd]

I've tried all sorts of things trying to move the plugins to recognized directories but nothing appear to work. I think the external plugins which include G'Mic, Resynthesizer, NUFraw. LiquidRescale and PhFGimp - all get put in an unrecognized .mount directory that doesn't show up in plugin folder preferences. I tried to move them to a regular plugin folder in the .config/GIMP-AppImage directory but that didn't seem to work. I'll stay with GIMP 2.15 for some time until these thing get resolved. Regards Ken <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

   Ken Liddon        kenliddon@gmail.com       (613)476-2164

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I didn't have time to look into that yet, sorry.

Could you eventually post the console messages you get when running the 2.99 appimage? There might be some indication of why GMIC doesn't work...

Thanks!

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[henry88g]

Nice to see that I'm not the only one with this issue. It may be connected with existing (production) installation(s) - I don't understand much of the console output, but, here it is:

Launch Gimp 2.99.txt

[henry88g]

Some of the content of the console file is irrelevant - looking for recently opened images, for example. Still, there may be something there that someone can make sense of in the G'MIC context. I do see:

Skipping potential plug-in '/home/henry/.config/GIMP-AppImage/2.99/plug-ins/xsane': plug-ins must be installed in subdirectories. Skipping potential plug-in '/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xsane': plug-ins must be installed in subdirectories.

/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gmic-gimp-qt/gmic-gimp-qt is a GIMP plug-in and must be run by GIMP to be used GIMP-WARNING: gimp.bin: gimp_wire_read(): error

[henry88g]

Thanks, aferrero2707, for your response, by the way.

[henry88g]

For what it's worth, I've just now spotted: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1649

[aferrero2707]

@KenLidd @henry88g the gimp issue you point out seems to confirm the main reason why I am not providing pre-compiled plug-ins for the 2.99 version: the plug-in interface is being re-factored, and the compatibility of existing plug-ins can break unexpectedly.

I prefer to focus on the 2.10.x version, for which (for example) I still need to fix the G'MIC macOS plugin...

[henry88g]

Understood.

[KenLidd]

I fully concur - I am quite happy to stay with 2.15 version. Appreciate your response. Ken <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

   Ken Liddon        kenliddon@gmail.com       (613)476-2164

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On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 5:20 PM aferrero2707 notifications@github.com wrote:

@KenLidd https://github.com/KenLidd @henry88g https://github.com/henry88g the gimp issue you point out seems to confirm the main reason why I am not providing pre-compiled plug-ins for the 2.99 version: the plug-in interface is being re-factored, and the compatibility of existing plug-ins can break unexpectedly.

I prefer to focus on the 2.10.x version, for which (for example) I still need to fix the G'MIC macOS plugin...

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