Read a post as how to do this and placed G'MIC in the Main Image menu of GIMP. It disappeared recently. I cannot find the post with the instructions. Does anyone know?

edit file "pluginrc" with notepad++
search for "gmic_gimp"
10th line after that entry you find
(menu-path "<Image>/Filters")
simply remove Filters (or change into "<Image>/GMIC")
save
restart gimp
you'll find G'MIC at the top menu level

Thanks, Diego. I've been wanting to do just this, but kept putting it off; you saved me both research time and also motivation to do this; thanks to you too Pat for posing this question.

Thank you Dinasset for answering. I'll keep those instructions handy this time.

Lyle: You are welcome. Hope all goes well. I finally remembered which file I had to make the change to but after I went back into that file to see what went wrong, it still had the correct changes I had made earlier. When I went to Gimp's plug in browser, it had the menu path as Image/Filters. No place there to change it. Not sure what to try next.

Pat, are you saying that:
- pluginrc is pointing for G'MIC to <Image> without ".../Filters"
but
- when you start Gimp you see G'mic under Filters?
that seems impossible for Gimp behaviour

Another old method (more durable) - to add a new location with the small plugin (py)

Thank you very much, MareroQ. It worked. G'MIC is in the main image menu after the Help. I seem to have one problem after another lately with my computer or maybe it is Gimp. I have another entry that keeps appearing in the main menu if though it has been removed.

MareroQ - thanks that worked straight away.

Nice tip. I edited the pluginrc because I really don't like things popping up in twelve different menus.

Now I just need to find an easy way of getting rid of redundant filters.

The only problem with re editing the pluginrc file to place G'MIC in the top image menu is every time you update G'MIC you need to start GIMP, close GIMP and then re edit the pluginrc file. The new install places the G'MIC plug-in in it's default location <Image> /Filters/G'MIC . Restarting GIMP re-initializes the pluginrc file and re locates the filter.

Was about to post the same thing, Rod, but you beat me to it. Just had to edit the pluginrc file again. lol

Thinking maybe MareroQ's method would be better. Does the menu stay correct with that method? Is the item only in one location? That would be ideal. Or maybe David can whip up something in the loading of GIMP (like the Arrows-Creator) plug-in asks when loading it for the first time when you restart GIMP?

I just extract the zip file (do not use installers) so that wouldn't work for me. Still, doesn't take a rocket scientist to edit pluginrc each time a G'MIC update is released.

Is there a way to control where G'MIC appears on the <Image> menu?

It is after Help, but can it be moved to after Filters?

Yes
1) Close GIMP if its open
2) in your user/.gimp-2.8 folder is a file named "pluginrc" open it in any text editor
3) search for the word "G'MIC"
4) you will find most likely 3-4 entries one has this line


Change this line to whatever you like but include the

For instance if you wanted G'MIC in the image window under G'MIC you would use


Restart GIMP

This would place a new menu item in the main image window named G'MIC. That's where mine resides. .

@Rod
I think what vA+6Q-Hv[BX] may be looking for is not how to place it in the top, but how to change its placement in the top from the end to after the Filters entry. This is something I would be interested in knowing.

FYI: if you only use (menu-path "<Image>/") the actual comand will be it the top listing.

This is an excellent solution. Kudos and thanks to MareroQ.

Personally I have a very small problem with this particular configuration though. The G'MIC menu item behaves like a button, in stead of a menu. It requires two clicks to open the G'MIC dialogue. In the case of editing the menurc file as mentioned above, the G'MIC menu contains a sub-menu item also called G'MIC, which brings up the G'MIC dialogue, either on click or button-release. This is more conventional.
So, if I may suggest a slight alteration to the py script, making the menu it creates behave in the same way as the menurc solution, change Line 18 to "<Image>/G'MIC/G'MIC",
Now the menu item behaves like a menu and not a button, and the position of the menu is better placed, and not after the Help menu. You can change the name of the submenu item to say, "Launch.." instead, or whatever you fancy. The basic idea is to have the menu behave like menus and not buttons.