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Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer

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Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer Peter Taylor 02 Jan 21:10
  Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer Sven Neumann 02 Jan 22:49
   Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd p arty thumbnail viewer David Herman 02 Jan 23:07
    Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer Sven Neumann 04 Jan 10:11
     Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer David Herman 04 Jan 17:36
   Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer Rolf Steinort 02 Jan 23:49
Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party, thumbnail viewer Peter Taylor 04 Jan 11:51
  Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party, thumbnail viewer Alexander Rabtchevich 04 Jan 13:31
Peter Taylor
2008-01-02 21:10:16 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer

Hi,
I use a photo cataloging program called IDimager as a 'front end' for Gimp.This program displays thumbnails of the complete directory (with star ratings, etc.), and is a very convenient way of identifying photos. Since changing to v2.4, a fresh instance of the Gimp is started for each new photo that I open. Previously with v2.2x it was a dream.Once it had opened Gimp for the first picture, from then on it quickly loaded new photos into the existing instance of Gimp. Now that it opens a fresh instance of Gimp for each photo, it is obviously slower and uses excessive system resources.

The only change I have made is going from Gimpv2.2 to v2.4. IDimager has not been updated. I did not configure v2.2 specially, but wonder if there is a way to configure v2.4 to behave similarly.

Incidentally, another thumbnail viewer I have used is Faststone thumbnail viewer. That opened a fresh instance of Gimp with v2.2 as well.

I would appreciate any help - even if it means using a different thumbnail viewer.

Thanks for any help

Peter Taylor

Sven Neumann
2008-01-02 22:49:04 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:10 +0000, Peter Taylor wrote:

The only change I have made is going from Gimpv2.2 to v2.4. IDimager has not been updated. I did not configure v2.2 specially, but wonder if there is a way to configure v2.4 to behave similarly.

No idea what exactly IDimage is doing but it probably needs to be updated for GIMP 2.4 then.

Sven

David Herman
2008-01-02 23:07:42 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd p arty thumbnail viewer

On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Sven Neumann wrote:

IDimager

Windows prog so I don't know if my advice will work.

I'd go to the IDimager preferences and see if it is possible to change the word gimp to gimp-remote where applicable.

I know that sometimes gimp-remote is named with the version # as well (like gimp-remote-2.4) so you might have to do a little exploration to find the exact name

good luck

Rolf Steinort
2008-01-02 23:49:47 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:49 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:10 +0000, Peter Taylor wrote:

The only change I have made is going from Gimpv2.2 to v2.4. IDimager has not been updated. I did not configure v2.2 specially, but wonder if there is a way to configure v2.4 to behave similarly.

No idea what exactly IDimage is doing but it probably needs to be updated for GIMP 2.4 then.

Or perhaps IDimage can call gimp-remote instead of gimp? If that doesn't work one could make "gimp" a link to gimp-remote. As far as I know it behaves like "gimp" when no other instance of GIMP is running.

Rolf (http://meetthegimp.org)

Sven Neumann
2008-01-04 10:11:51 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:07 -0800, David Herman wrote:

On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Sven Neumann wrote:

IDimager

Windows prog so I don't know if my advice will work.

I'd go to the IDimager preferences and see if it is possible to change the word gimp to gimp-remote where applicable.

That is not going to work as there's no gimp-remote on Windows. The standard installer ships with a tool called gimp-win-remote though. This tool, which is not maintained by the GIMP developers, has similar functionality.

BTW, on a modern Linux desktop that has support D-Bus you don't need gimp-remote any longer. The functionality is built into the main gimp executable then.

Sven

Peter Taylor
2008-01-04 11:51:18 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party, thumbnail viewer

Hi,
Thanks to all who pointed me to gimp-remote to prevent multiple instances of Gimp when opening files from third party thumbnail viewers. I downloaded the Windows version, which requires the following registry entry to be added:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\gimp-win-remote] @="gimp-2.4.exe"
(as described in the Readme file.)

It now works perfectly with both IDimager and Fastone image viewer.

I appreciated the lightning fast responses!

Peter

Alexander Rabtchevich
2008-01-04 13:31:37 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party, thumbnail viewer

Thank you for the tip, it works. And the document http://windowsxp.mvps.org/imgeditor.htm adds information how to make GIMP default picture editor:
* Click Start, Run and type CONTROL FOLDERS * Select the File Types tab
* Select the image file type from the listing (e.g. jpg), and click the Advanced button. If it is not available, click "restore defaults" first. * Create a new action by clicking New * In the Action text box, type Edit * In the Application used to perform action box, type the full path to the image editor application. Just copy/paste the correspondent strings from Edit with GIMP entry.
* Click OK, OK to close the dialog If you had to restore settings, edit "Open" key to the viewer you like. Now if GIMP has been loaded, pressing F4 in XnView opens the image in GIMP. :)

Peter Taylor wrote:

Hi,
Thanks to all who pointed me to gimp-remote to prevent multiple instances of Gimp when opening files from third party thumbnail viewers. I downloaded the Windows version, which requires the following registry entry to be added:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\gimp-win-remote] @="gimp-2.4.exe"
(as described in the Readme file.)

It now works perfectly with both IDimager and Fastone image viewer.

I appreciated the lightning fast responses!

--
With respect
Alexander Rabtchevich

David Herman
2008-01-04 17:36:20 UTC (about 17 years ago)

Opening files in Gimp2.4x from 3rd party thumbnail viewer

On Friday 04 January 2008, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 14:07 -0800, David Herman wrote:

On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Sven Neumann wrote:

IDimager

Windows prog so I don't know if my advice will work.

I'd go to the IDimager preferences and see if it is possible to change the word gimp to gimp-remote where applicable.

That is not going to work as there's no gimp-remote on Windows. The standard installer ships with a tool called gimp-win-remote though. This tool, which is not maintained by the GIMP developers, has similar functionality.

BTW, on a modern Linux desktop that has support D-Bus you don't need gimp-remote any longer. The functionality is built into the main gimp executable then.

Sven

Sweet! I guess I'll have to try that. Is there an advantage in using the d-bus method over gimp-remote?