addons Collection Manager - request for added feature

dinasset · **Posted:** Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:01 am **(#1)**

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: New User

This request is for the author (Ofnuts).
Is it possible (and easy) to add to the Manager the possibility to look at a directory specified in the .ini file different from the assumed ".gimp-2.8" (currently) for finding all the referenced "storages" of resources?
Assume one wants to create a directory called "Extras" where to put all the "xxx_storage" ("scripts_storage", for instance) instead of having all in the .gimp-2.8 folder; if there would be a parameter in the .ini file where to specify "directory to look at"...
Someone could consider it to be an extravagance, but IMHO it could add more flexibility to the data organisation for Gimp.
Thanks

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Read the doc, it"s already there.

Quote:

For all these items, some speficic names enclosed in braces are dynamically replaced when reading the configuration:

{UserHome}: the user's home folder (the parent of the Gimp profile)
{GimpUser}: the user's Gimp profile folder
{GimpData}: the global Gimp data folder (in the Gimp installation tree, in Linux: /usr/share/gimp/2.0/)
{GimpPlugin}: the plugins folder in the Gimp profile
{type}: the lower case name of the add-on types: "brushes"
{Type}: the capitalized name of the add-on types: "Brushes"

The default directory definitions include a {GimpUser} item which is replaced by the user's Gimp profile location when found in a directory definitions. If it's not there then there is no replacement and the directory specification becomes independent of Gimp's directories.

dinasset · **Posted:** Wed Nov 18, 2015 8:42 am **(#3)**

thanks Ofnuts!
For my poor ability with these variables, assuming I have under my user name -i.e. at the same level of ".gimp-2.8"- a folder named "Extras", what should I set in the .ini?
- instead of addons_stored:{GimpUser}/{type}_storage
- should I put addons_stored:{UserHome}/Extras/{type}_storage?
Thanks for your patience

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2615

I did this earlier, then thought, better wait for the official Ofnuts.

This worked here and looks like your intention : caveats: linux installation and I use _alt instead of _storage (It is an old version

) Use whatever is already there.

addonCollectionManager.ini
In the first section [ all ] changing the location addons_stored
from addons_stored:{GimpUser}/{type}_alt

to an explicit path.

[all]
# enable:brushes dynamics fonts gradients palettes patterns scripts
enable:brushes fonts patterns scripts
addons_active:{GimpUser}/{type}
addons_stored:/home/rich/gimp_stuff/{type}_alt
...
...
.etc.

dinasset · **Posted:** Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:29 am **(#5)**

thanks Rich!
Sorry, Ofnuts, if I didn't recognize before this feature, good news.
Done, it works!

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Sorry I didn't respond, my PC had a "hard disk moment" to put it mildly.