Adding a gimp plugin

[Dave M]

At 02:22 PM 7/28/2006 , you wrote:
>On Friday 28 July 2006 15:51, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Fri July 28 2006 8:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > In Mozilla that just gave me a blank page, and in Konqueror I
> > > got
> > >
> > > An error occurred while loading http://tinyurl.com/lpry3:
> > > Access denied to
> > > file:///usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/concepts-intermediate.html.
> > >cription
> > > Do you have the expanded url?
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Sorry about that - Steven's given you the correct URL; his is the
> > one I tried to give you. I've done a bit of experimentation, but
> > so far, that page hasn't proven too helpful. I tried using the
> > command gimptool* but this is obviously not intended for python
> > scripts. I tried adding the script to the scripts directories,
> > but it didn't appear in any menus - still experimenting. Let me/lib
> > know if you figure it out.
> >
>No luck so far.  The doc that Steven pointed us to talks about .c files, but
>this is a .py script.  Putting it in the local ~/.gimp plugin folder doesn't
>appear to do anything, and doesn't seem appropriate if the doc's description
>is correct.  I tried moving it to /usr/gimp/2.0/plug-ins (this on FC4) where
>the python-fu scripts are, but that doesn't seem to add it to any menu.

Maybe, if you find a python script that works, do a text search for that 
filename and maybe you will find a config file that points to your python 
script plug-ins. It is a long shot but that is what I would try...

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Dave M
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