Old managers additives (with a little modification)

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2602

Oh, Oh, just seen that last post, linux is case sensitve so Mybrushes is different to myBrushes is different to My Brushes. Keep everything simple lower case and no spaces.

We are talking linux here?? yes just looked back at your post.

back to molly post

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... I have the manger button but it doesn't do anything.

If this happens then you have one of the paths wrong, been there, done it.

For your brushes manager, that looks like it almost works, this is what I meant about permissions although this shows the gradients folders, don't have brushes set up on this LMDE but it is the one I was playing with on Sunday.

Top left shows the folders, which need to be used in the paths
Bottom right shows the permissions for MrQxxxxx.py set to read-write for everything.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very good Rich, well presented,
I don't have that Dolphin thing but I have mc (Midnight Commander) but I am still trying to figure out how it works. I have been shown part of it but I am still trying to figure out how to get a lot of the commands I haven't learned yet.
Just like going to school and being back in kindergarten to learn a new language.
BTW, I am finally getting the drift.

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2602

Just had to re-boot into my usual PCLOS.
I showed Dolphin because it is identical to Nautilus which comes with Fedora.
mc, well, not so user friendy but very powerful.

I still think that apart from getting the paths correct it is a permissions thing.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I have been in Nautilus but I didn't see a place to get to the screen you have. Anyway, I am just glad to know I can now get the manager to work.

Bug Sampson · **Joined:** Jul 14, 2012 **Posts:** 162

Read and Write didn't cut it for me. It didn't work right until I set the permissions to Create and Delete like I said earlier. Every distro is different somehow. I guess it doesn't matter since she's sure those are set right. It doesn't look like the paths are the problem but what I did was open a text file, created the resource folders, wrote down the paths to the resource and .gimp folders, then just copied and pasted the paths. I didn't want to get mixed up somewhere.

RobA · **Joined:** Jul 14, 2010 **Posts:** 697

You can use manager with gurm, but do not have them managing the same resources to and from the same target directories, as they will get mixed up, in my experience.

I.E. if you enable a set of gradients in gurm, they will not show up as selected in manager, even though the brushes are usable. If you then enable them in manager they will still be available and show as active in both. If you then disable them in one it gets buggered up in the other.

Does anyone using either with 2.8 know what happens if you tag resources then move them in and out? Do the tags get lost?

-Rob A>

Bug Sampson · **Joined:** Jul 14, 2012 **Posts:** 162

RobA wrote:

You can use manager with gurm, but do not have them managing the same resources to and from the same target directories, as they will get mixed up, in my experience.

I.E. if you enable a set of gradients in gurm, they will not show up as selected in manager, even though the brushes are usable. If you then enable them in manager they will still be available and show as active in both. If you then disable them in one it gets buggered up in the other.

I considered that but didn't want to go through the trouble and take up the space to have two sets of resources. I haven't had any problems. That is, if I'm understanding you correctly. You're not suggesting managing the same resources at the same time? That just seems like common sense but you never know what some people will do.

I like the behavior of GURM better. It does what it needs to and closes. I have noticed a glitch where it doesn't close unless I mouse over it sometimes. I'm going to remove all Mareoq's managers except for the font manager and wait for 0.8 of GURM.

Since I've never had the chance to talk to you before, thanks for all the work on the plugins, scripts, etc..

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2602

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Does anyone using either with 2.8 know what happens if you tag resources then move them in and out? Do the tags get lost?

Using PCLOS, Gimp 2.8, MrQ and Gurm 0.7

That made an interesting little trial. AFAIK the tags are lost.
For Gimp brushes,
If the brushes remain, the the tags survive a gimp restart - both GURM & MrQ
If the brushes are removed (either manager), gimp closed, gimp restarted, brushes replaced then the tags are lost.

For a 'collection' in a .abr brush.
Does not matter if the brushes stay or removed the tags do not survive a gimp restart.

There is a 'tags.xml' file in ~/gimp-2.8 so presumably to carry the information over, part of that file would have to be saved by the brush manager and somehow merged back when installing a brush.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

Did anybody try to use one of those managers with a portable version ?

If yes how you wrote the paths ?

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

Nobody ?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16023

Here you go PC - I have them all running in Gimp-2.8.1 Portable in my pref_1\plug-ins folder.
I created a separate folder in my F directory named gimp.Inside it are my resource folders.This is the way i set up the paths to work.

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#################
## User Config ##
#################
ACTIVE_DIR=r"F:\Gimp-2.8.1_Portable\Gimp-2.8.1-32bit-Partha\pref_1\brushes" #<<<-----SET ME<<<----- (Directory to hold active sets, select Writable in Preferences)
INSTALL_DIR=r"F:\gimp\brushes"#<<<-----SET ME<<<----- (Directory where you place your sets - in subdirectories)

EXTENTIONS = [".gbr", ".vbr", ".gih", ".abr", ".GBR", ".VBR", ".GIH", ".ABR"] # Valid brush extentions

################
## End Config ##
################

Then i placed all my brush sets in different folders inside the brushes folder. NOT ZIPPED!

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

Not sure if you understand my question :
I may transfer my gimp from a usb drive to the main HD (or somewhere else )without broken the paths ?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16023

To do that you will have to set the path to the name of the flash drive. For instance mine is G:\ when it's plugged in the port.
So it would be

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#################
## User Config ##
#################
ACTIVE_DIR=r"YourDriveLetter:\Install PathToPref_1 Folder\pref_1\brushes" #<<<-----SET ME<<<----- (Directory to hold active sets, select Writable in Preferences)
INSTALL_DIR=r"YourDriveLetter:\Install PathToPref_1 Folder\pref_1\gimp\brushes"#<<<-----SET ME<<<----- (Directory where you place your sets - in subdirectories)

EXTENTIONS = [".gbr", ".vbr", ".gih", ".abr", ".GBR", ".VBR", ".GIH", ".ABR"] # Valid brush extentions

################
## End Config ##
################

The manager will then grab the brushes from the USB drive itself out of the pref_1\gimp\brushes directory and place them in pref_1\brushes directory and refresh.

That should work for porting.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16023

Note: The INSTALL_DIR can be any folder on the USB drive.

So you could use G:\gimp\brushes if the name of the USB flash drive letter is G.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

aaah ok i will try

Born2BeMild · **Joined:** Nov 14, 2013 **Posts:** 101

rich2005 wrote:

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Obviously, after trying for 3 days I find that it only works with Windows.

Three days in the wilderness

They should work on your Fedora machine.
Unpack the zip to your local plugins folder
MrQ-Brush_Manager.py
MrQ-Fonts_Manager.py
MrQ-Gradients_Manager.py
MrQ-Paletes_Manager.py
MrQ-Pattern_Manager.py

Make sure the ones you want to use are made executable.

As a quick try-out in Fedora I am just using the Brush Manager, I assume the others are similar.

Make your brushes_alt folder and inside that your set folders. Put some brushes in the set(s) folder(s)
something like this http://i.imgur.com/an1qu.jpg

next edit the python script for your installation.
ACTIVE_DIR=r"/home/molly/.gimp-2.8/brushes"
INSTALL_DIR=r"/home/molly/.gimp-2.8/brushes_alt"

something like this http://i.imgur.com/fAeko.jpg

Now these are context based so to activate you need to *right-click* on the brushes dialog.
http://imgur.com/uiP0U

and you get the brush manager dialog to enable your brush sets.
http://i.imgur.com/RARZ5.jpg

working here
Hope this helps, its done in a bit of a rush, I will have a better try-out tomorrow on my regular machine.

Thanks for you instructions!
I found it easy to install and it's working(I'm on linux) but I don't understand the
" GURM is very necessary." at the top of the very first post, as I dont have gurm and it works fine.

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2602

You are going back a bit there. 2012 posts.

There was once a resource manager by Sean Bogie which was developed into GURM , http://registry.gimp.org/node/13473 that developed into the MrQ plugins.

From those came another by ofnuts addonCollectionManager-3.0.py Easy to use, no editing necessary, just set up the various directories.
see: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-to ... s/scripts/

I once did a video on usage. Aimed at windows users but even easier in linux.
Never very happy with this video, too long (12 mins), too slow, need to change the leadin

FWIW http://youtu.be/v0g0qv4YMks

Born2BeMild · **Joined:** Nov 14, 2013 **Posts:** 101

I am not having any problems with it, just saying the the very first comment in the first post is a bit confusing/misleading "GURM is very necessary. " It makes you think you have to find and install something called GURM and then install his scripts.
btw I watched your vid, do you come from the NE of uk, as I do too!

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2602

Born2BeMild wrote:

I am not having any problems with it, just saying the the very first comment in the first post is a bit confusing/misleading "GURM is very necessary. " It makes you think you have to find and install something called GURM and then install his scripts.

Maybe resource manager is very necessary would be better

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btw I watched your vid, do you come from the NE of uk, as I do too!

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