Hello all,

I like the search feature of G'mic quite a lot, but it no longer works.
I remember when starting about>search it listed all available filters and I could then perform a search. Some time ago it started to be empty ... no search possible any more. Version number of G'mic is 1.7.9. GIMP is 2.8.22 on Linux Mint MATE
Is it a common problem or just one with my installation?

nelo

In linux the gmic configuration/data files are kept in ~/.config/gmic

In there is a file gimp_filters which if you updated will look like this


So that file no longer exists.

You can get "a version" dated 2015 which will give some search facility although some might be missing/wrong place.

https://github.com/jpfleury/gmic-filter ... ilters.txt

copy that as gimp_filters (no .txt) to ~/.config/gmic and a search in gmic 1.7.9 looks like this



As a note, both gmic 1.7.9 and gmic 2.0 can co-exist in Gimp.
Keep your existing plugin gmic_gimp in your plug-ins folder ~/.gimp-2.8/plug-ins
Worth trying the QT version of gmic, so put gmic_gimp_qt in the plugins folder as well.

Both appear bottom of the filters menu. A search with version 2 looks like this:

Search function works fine here in G'mic v 2.0 running Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.1. I don't have v 1.79 to test.

Just fired up my (obsolete) PClinuxOS installation and I have the gmic 1.7.9 gimp_filters file from November 2016 just before the last gmic 1.7.9 was issued. Much more recent than the previous reference.

Get it from https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code ... ei2Vqdt6iV

Same as before it goes in ~/.config/gmic

Still advise updating to gmic 2.0 which has its own help.

Yes, sorry, I've accidentally deleted the file 'gimp_filters.txt' which was used by the filter search engine in version 1.7.9.
I'd suggest trying to update your G'MIC plug-in to the newest pre-release version (2.0.0_pre), where you'll have a really better filter search engine included.

Thank you everybody for your suggestions. Looks I should really try to update to 2.0. I'll try that asap.

nelo