Because G'MIC updates are so frequent i do not believe there is a current available list that would be totally accurate.

Perhaps a sort of plugin browser within G'MIC code could be implemented?
Maybe attach it in it's own new HELP link in the main filter menu list?
Example you click HELP and the plugin browser for the filter menu list pops up.
Could be updated with each new refresh of update1561.gmic file.

on the gmic site there are doc pages with a list of all effect and even before/after examples

The list correspond to what available for the command line version but not with the plugins

Most of filters included in gmic plugin are included but not all (not the contributed filter AFAIK )and viceversa are many commands only present in CL gmic but not available for the plugin (are all usable with the plugin but only if used with "local code" or global code" gmic option )

So the list is almost complete but tailored for command line users , anyway useful as reference

I too would like to see a simple filter search feature within G'MIC. It would make it much easier and faster to locate a specific filter.

I think that would be a great idea. That is why I hardly ever use GMIC. It takes too long to find what I want. Do you think it is possible to write a script of this kind?

It is possible to write a scm that could be located in the Help menu in GIMP.
Probably just use ShellOut to open a Compiled HTML Help file or the like.
This link could open either an installed HTML file you could update yourself, OR an online HTML/CSS version of the list. But then it would have to be updated by the webpage owner.

I think the search feature should be part of the G'MIC interface and not require any external shellout or connection to a webpage. All that is needed is a simple search box in the G'MIC filter interface.

It would be nice to see that added yes but i am thinking more of a quick fix until this is implemented.
I can not find any HELP docs for GMIC anywhere, nor any manuals. perhaps one or more of us should write one?
Then i could upload that to my server and link to it from a script.
Also it may be possible to take a look at the C code for the browser help plugin for Gimp, and create a new one that can be compiled for G'MIC.

This was requested before but don't remember why David said no. Or was I just dreaming. lol

Feel your pain K1te; especially when David revamped the directory naming convention very recently.

I think I have also participated in that discussion here in GimpChat. And if I remember correctly there was an old discussion on flikr about that.
Or maybe I'm dreaming the same as you

I believe it was MareroQ that brought it up last time. He actually created a file (word Document File), that contained all the filters in a tree list.
But you see you still have to update this yourself each time a filter or the tree was re designed. Better to have one person keep track of new filters and submit a new CSS file online that can be linked to a script in my opinion. If the filters always stayed the same i could see using an offline version, but this isn't the case for G'MIC. David is constantly updating filters. I don't mind creating the HTML/CSS part and uploading to my server and keeping track of it. Then a scm could call it from the help menu as a web link. Just until David decides to add a search feature of some sort to G'MICS interface.
I would like some help with the manual for each filter though. The filter tree will be very simple the manuals another story.

If I find a filter I like, I mark it as a favorite, that way it will always be on top of the list.

Here is the html5 code i have so far. What do you guys think?


I reserved the code for future linking to images or tutorials for certain filters if need be.
Filter tree is also collapsible for easier reading.

And the code so far.

Keep in mind these are all collapsible menus. I can also add a search bar to the menus onsite.
This will methodically look for any search word and show it in the menu list.

Dear all,
Just a few words about this problem (I'm still on vacations) : Having a search box in the current plug-in is something I don't want to do, mainly because :

1. The plug-in will be probably broken in a near future, as GEGL nodes are coming, and I don't think spending time on new features for the current interface is worth the effort.
My opinion is that the current G'MIC plug-in for GIMP will become obsolete shortly. I'd prefer to have something redesigned to work with GEGL instead.
(garagecoder and jayprich may give their opinions about this as well ).

2. A correct search feature would imply the introduction of 'tags' in the different filters. Searching only for the filter name is probably useless : if you don't remember the location of the filters you are looking for, I don't see why you should remember their exact names. As a result, if we implement a search tool only for the filter name, it won't be so user-friendly and useful at all.
And by the way, introducing tags for filters requires a lot of work : not only for defining the tags for the 400+ filters available, but also to code the whole stuff.

3. And if we just think about finding a filter by its name, there is something simpler to do : open : http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp_filters.txt and do a search in it. This list is intended to be updated every hour (it is automatically generated by a script, even if it seems that the update is broken right now, I will check that when I return). I agree that this is not good-looking as it is, *but* this can be probably improved easily (by adding some html tags in the script output).

To sum up, I'm not a big fan of introducing a new search tool in the current plug-in interface. It will take a lot of time, and won't be more easy to use than opening the list with your browser and do a quick search in the filter list page.