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Bug 787155 - G'Mic seems not to load
G'Mic seems not to load
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Plugins
2.9.6
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
: 787369 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-09-01 19:39 UTC by Stephan Calkosz
Modified: 2017-12-19 15:11 UTC
See Also:
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Description Stephan Calkosz 2017-09-01 19:39:19 UTC 
G'Mic, even though installed is not visible in GIMP and not displayed in the plugin browser?!

Please help

Kind regards

Stephan
Comment 1 Michael Schumacher 2017-09-01 19:41:51 UTC 
That's a third party plug-in - you should report this to the G'Mic author.
Comment 2 Pat David 2017-09-01 19:47:34 UTC 
The G'MIC forums are the best place to ask questions about getting this working:

https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/gmic
Comment 3 Stephan Calkosz 2017-09-06 15:33:35 UTC 
On the pixls forum I found a thread regarding this error. One has to replace the GIMP libcairo-2.dll with the previous version. Now the plug-in is detected and loaded but still it does not work. ZLIB1.dll does not run...

However this is the link to the libcairo-2 thread:

http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=15844
Comment 4 Michael Natterer 2017-09-06 16:42:52 UTC 
*** Bug 787369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Michael Natterer 2017-09-06 16:44:07 UTC 
Starting with 2.9.6, 3rd party plug-ins are supposed to install into
a subfolder of a plug-in directory. This was done to fix this known bug
about warnings whenever a dll or some other non-executable is found.
Comment 6 Michael Schumacher 2017-12-19 15:11:26 UTC 
This is for the G'Mic packagers to handle - and the way GIMP 2.9.x looks for plug-ins now makes the recommended approach of using sub-directories easier.