XCF plugin with Gimp.app

[andreasw]

I think I've changed my mind. Since the quicklooklpugins depends on gimp.app it seems like a good idea to bundle it within the app.
About the transparent: I think it's important to show transparency, no other ways to speed up to process?

[Auria]

Mortimer, last time I tried it seemed to me like gimp-console was loading all plug-ins, etc. maybe there is a way to tell it that we don't need any plug-ins, and to not load them?

Maybe take a look at those flags :

--no-data
--no-fonts

there might be others...

[Mortimer]

ok, I tried:
no-fonts and no-data
real 0m7.651s
user 0m5.816s
sys 0m1.714s

no-fonts
real 0m8.335s
user 0m5.896s
sys 0m1.792s

normal
real 0m8.110s
user 0m5.888s
sys 0m1.757s

no-data:
real 0m7.788s
user 0m5.875s
sys 0m1.715s

Just tried one run each with the same image and output parameters. I wonder what happen if we don't load fonts and there is a text layer in the xcf... I will have to test, 7.6 against 8.1s is not a great gain, but it's still that. I am not sure what the timeout is for the thumbnail generation, will have to ask the quicklook mailling list.

[Auria]

AFAIK text layers in GIMP are bitmap, so there should be no problem

We'd still need to find a way to not load plug-ins, if it's possible

[Mortimer]

ok, --no-data still loads the plugins
do we need to bundle all the py plugins. I mean, we know that they are broken with the distribution for now.. (this is not the right solution, but just saying

[Auria]

Maybe it would work to point it to a modified gimprc file, where plug-in-path is set to empty

[Mortimer]

Yeah, that could be the way, the man says: "-g, --gimprc
    Use an alternative gimprc instead of the default one. Useful in cases where plug-in paths or machine specs may be different"

will try that tomorow.

[andreasw]

sweet! 

[andreasw]

2 days has pasted, i'm worried 

[Mortimer]

hehe, it's called hang over and easter WE

I tried making a custom rc, but there is something wrong for now. Gimp doesn't find the script fu interpreter if I don't provide a plug-ins directory

[smoke_tetsu]

I may be stating the obvious here but this shouldn't\wouldn't work with Tiger because it doesn't have Quicklook. Auria are you trying to make this work in Tiger?

[Auria]

Nope, Mortimer is the one involved with that script, I'm not

[andreasw]

because of the lack of Quick Look, this plugin will never come to tiger

[smoke_tetsu]

I was asking because it seemed like Auria was trying to compile it on Tiger. So I was thinking if so it's probably not worth the effort to fix it so it does compile under Tiger since it wont work there. In case anyone misunderstood I wasn't asking if there was going to be a Tiger version.

[Auria]

Nope, I never tried compiling it, I was just suggesting ideas to Mortimer