As you might know, I am providing since quite some time a Linux AppImage package for GIMP, both for stable releases and development snapshots. So far, the AppImages have been shipped in two versions, one only containing the GIMP application, and another one also containing several popular plug-ins.

While this worked, the approach had few major drawbacks: * the size of the package with plug-ins is obviously larger than the one without * there was no way to decouple the versions of the various plug-ins and the one of the GIMP application

Recently I have managed to decouple the GIMP plug-ins from the main AppImage, and provide them as separate packages.

The separate plug-ins are now available from this release page: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-plugins-collection/releases/tag/continuous . In the same release page you will also find macOS packages that are compatible with the official GIMP DMG.

In order to use the AppImage plug-ins, you will need to grab the most recent GIMP AppImage packages: * https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/download/continuous/GIMP_AppImage-release-2.10.10-x86_64.AppImage * a recent development snapshot like https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/download/continuous/GIMP_AppImage-git-2.10.9-20190403-x86_64.AppImage (or newer).

The installation of the plugins is very simple: * download the corresponding AppImage * make it executable with `chmod +x` * run it

This will automatically copy the required files into

$HOME/.config/GIMP-AppImage/2.10/plug-ins

and the GIMP AppImage should correctly find them the next time it is launched.

The plug-ins are updated on a daily basis, so I suggest you to bookmark the release page and visit it frequently in order to get the new updates, especially for the G'MIC package!

All this is very recent, so I cannot guarantee it will work 100% OK for all of you. In case of problems, please report them through the GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-plugins-collection/issues.

I hope you will find this helpful!

Andrea

On 10 Apr 2019, at 03:05, Casey Connor via gimp-developer-list wrote:

Recently I have managed to decouple the GIMP plug-ins from the main AppImage, and provide them as separate packages.

Thank you very much for your work in making the AppImages! I find them very useful.

I want to cast a vote for an "all plugins" AppImage for those of us that want all or most of the plugins and don't want to have to download and run all of the separate AppImages. (E.g. I use four of them, plus the main GIMP AppImage, is five things to download.) If it is simple for you to make, it would be handy. If it is not simple, I will survive. :-) Thanks!

An “all plugins” AppImage is not difficult to generate, all the scripts are still in place for that… the issue is more practical: suppose you are using the ApImage from the 2.10.10 GIMP release, and you want to update G’MIC to the latest version. With an “all plugins” AppImage that would not be possible, because I would need to re-generate the AppImage each time one of the plug-ins is updated. In the new scheme, you only have to re-download the G’MIC plug-in and you are done.

Also take into account that apart form G’MIC, the other plug-ins are very rarely updated. Hence you can download and install them once, and they should still work with future 2.10.x GIMP versions.

One thing I need to check/test is whether I can provide an “all plugins” AppImage and still allow to install the individual plug-ins as updates. That is, the plug-in that was downloaded separately would take precedence over the bundled one.

Would this make sense?

Andrea

-c

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