3.0 Plugin/Script Repository?

[CtrlAltDel]

As everyone is reworking/tweaking/creating plugins and scripts that function with 3.0, will there be a thread here dedicated to ones that have been successfully utilized with 3.0?

We all have a ton of plugins and scripts that need to function with 3.0, I would assume, and it would be insanity to start requesting specific ones and expect any prompt assistance with the changeover going on.

Will there be a single thread, maybe, where posters can follow a link for a specific listed plugin/script or maybe just download it from here after someone has been kind enough to list them here, whichever ones they may be?

For example, everyone could just come and check out the thread to see if anyone has converted/created/updated their favorite plugins/scripts without having to pressure anyone or aggravate anyone by asking.

[Xxxx]

See the dead
https://www.gimp.org/registry/
Let's pray for something to be reborn!

[Ofnuts]

(11-21-2024, 08:16 AM)CtrlAltDel Wrote: As everyone is reworking/tweaking/creating plugins and scripts that function with 3.0, will there be a thread here dedicated to ones that have been successfully utilized with 3.0?

We all have a ton of plugins and scripts that need to function with 3.0, I would assume, and it would be insanity to start requesting specific ones and expect any prompt assistance with the changeover going on.

Will there be a single thread, maybe, where posters can follow a link for a specific listed plugin/script or maybe just download it from here after someone has been kind enough to list them here, whichever ones they may be?

For example, everyone could just come and check out the thread to see if anyone has converted/created/updated their favorite plugins/scripts without having to pressure anyone or aggravate anyone by asking.

That would be up to the individual authors, and many don't show up here (or in any of the common Gimp watering spots). If you have a pet script, the author can usually be tracked and you can inquire about a new version; most authors are very pleased to receive fan mail, it's already a very good day when we are told about bugs.

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(11-21-2024, 09:28 AM)Xxxx Wrote: See the dead
https://www.gimp.org/registry/
Let's pray for something to be reborn!

That would be nice, Xxxx.  Maybe one day it will reappear.

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(11-21-2024, 11:38 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: That would be up to the individual authors, and many don't show up here (or in any of the common Gimp watering spots). If you have a pet script, the author can usually be tracked and you can inquire about a new version; most authors are very pleased to receive fan mail, it's already a very good day when we are told about bugs.

Thanks, Ofnuts, I understand. 

I've already found out how to get the updated arrow script that works with 3.0 from reading a thread here and that was good. Your advice to contact the authors is great and I'll keep that in mind if I can't eventually find the essential ones that I use, while keeping an eye out here also.

[vitforlinux]

The beauty of Open Source is that you don't have to ask permission to take the initiative and make changes... other than preventing the modified script from conflicting with the original, just changing the names inside.

At the beginning of the sad days of covid I thought about making Polisched Plastic Fu work on Gimp 2.99.3, and now it's called Polished Plastic Fun, and it has grown, now I have to make it slim down to remove what is done with some plug-ins that they are no longer connected to Script-fu.

I said to myself: I'll make it work then we'll see...

Another great thing about Open Source is that you don't have to deal with something when it's not a day: today isn't working or some bug is complicating your life? You can wait another day, no one will scold you.

Now we have sourceforge, github, gitlab, codeberg, blogs, forums... so there's no shortage of ways to publish/store/share your scripts... just search and you'll find it.

The scripts are mostly text files, apart from the LinuxBeaver GEGLs, which however releases the source, so you can read and understand how it works and modify.

I would also like to tell you that Gimp 2.10 will not stop working, and neither will Gimp 2.8, so the only real problem is making them work together, if an old script needs an old environment to work, it is certainly not a problem the program producer who must sell the new version.

I have some appimage, 2.8 (orbital), 2.10 Hybrid, some 2.99.19, 3.0rc1, and I'm slowly fixing the one I like to make it work, but if someone took, modified and redistributed a script that I updated and modified before I wouldn't let them I would definitely file a lawsuit... it's Open Source!

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(11-22-2024, 03:04 PM)vitforlinux Wrote: The beauty of Open Source is that you don't have to ask permission to take the initiative and make changes... other than preventing the modified script from conflicting with the original, just changing the names inside.

Thanks for all the advice, vitforlinux;  you have excellent insight.