GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 705711
Gimp does not pick up plugins from configured plugin path
Last modified: 2013-10-28 18:04:54 UTC
This is a bug report from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/1168056 The plug-ins path (Edit | Preferences, Folders | Plug-Ins) has two entries: /home/user/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins However, nothing in the first entry is picked up. For example, running Filters | Python-Fu | Console: GIMP 2.6.12 Python Console Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 1 2012, 05:14:39) [GCC 4.6.3] >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins', '/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntu-sso-client', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-client', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-control-panel', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-couch', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-installer', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-storage-protocol'] >>> Only the /usr/lib/gimp/... location appears to be used, whih means I can't install my own Gimp plugins under my home directory. This is contrary to expectations. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gimp 2.6.12-1ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic 3.2.40 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Apr 11 17:52:25 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gimp UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) --- I can confirm this bug with GIMP 2.8.6 also. Thank you for your help!
I'm not a python expert, but the plug-in path has afaik nothing todo with sys.path. I can put python in my per-user plug-ins folder and they appear in the menu just fine. What exactly do you mean by you can't install them? Don't they show up in your menus?
> I'm not a python expert, but the plug-in path has afaik nothing todo with sys.path. Ok, then we would know it hasn't to do nothing with this. Thank you for this information Michael! > What exactly do you mean by you can't install them? Don't they show up in your menus? I have installed a few plugins that work on GIMP 2.8.x. Yes, on my system they show up. Perhaps I have tested a plugin that was not for 2.8. I'm sorry for this. I will ask the reporter for more information. Thank you!
I'm surprised that this seems to have been forwarded to upstream without an attempt to confirm it in Launchpad first. For example, the checks you seem to have done, as mentioned in comment #2, are not described there.
Michael Schumacher: I have tested the python console and the first question was why the patch doesn't show up here of the standard user plugin library of GIMP. In the end currently I got one plugin running and that's G'MIC. I assume that the other plugins were not 64 bit compiled. Yes, was my fault here, I want to apologize.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!