How to change splash screens (and how to get offline Help working)?

[Ed Ferris]

Using 2.10.12 under Ubuntu.
In 2.8, one placed pictures in home/.gimp-2.8/splashes.  I tried renaming the folder as .gimp-2.10 but GIMP did not use the images.
If I could get the offline Help to open, I might be able to find how to change the splash screen, but it keeps trying to load something off the Internet which is not allowed by the AppArmor settings.  The help files are there, somewhere.  I saw them once, down about eight levels of folders, and they were all XML.  I don't have an XML viewer.
Is there a way to get GIMP to find and use them?
If not, is there a PDF of the 2.10.12 offline help?
If not, how do I get GIMP to use different splash screens?

[dinasset]

I'm using samj's portable 2.10 (windows).
The creation of a "splashes" folder under "Preferences" still works, so that you get your preferred splash

[Ofnuts]

The location of the Gimp profile has changed a bit between 2.8 and 2.10. In 2.10 that would be ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/ if you use the package install. If you use the flatpak, this is ~/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/config/GIMP/2.10. In the general case, open the Gimp Python console (Filters>Python-fu>Console) and enter:

Code:

print gimp.directory

The output is where you should create the splashes screen.

See https://docs.gimp.org/en/customize-splashscreen.html

For the help: which version did you install? Package from repo, package from PPA, flatpak? snap?

[rich2005]

Best guess: Ubuntu + Gimp 2.10.12 , that must be Ubuntu 20.04 ( based on Debian bullseye) For online help:

Do you have the gvfs packages installed?

Code:

sudo apt install gvfs*

Do you have Edit -> Preferences -> Help System set to Use the online version

Quote:....is there a PDF of the 2.10.12 offline help

A very good one here: http://gimp.linux.it/www/meta/ (11-Nov-2019 42 MB 1000-ish pages indexed, searchable)

[Ed Ferris]

Thank you for the prompt and informative replies.
I had downloaded the 2.8 help PDF and didn't notice that the 2.10 help was a few lines down in the same directory.
On changing Preferences to "use downloaded version" it tells me there is none installed.
SUDO returns "latest version already installed" for GVFS*.
I did find the CONFIG folder and got the splashes working.

I recently made a line drawing of a photograph of a customer's house:
Colors > Desaturate > Desaturate
Filters > Edge Detect > Edge
Colors > Invert
and virtually-painted it with my suggested color scheme. This is probably a standard procedure, but very effective.

[rich2005]

Quote:On changing Preferences to "use downloaded version" it tells me there is none installed

That should be Use the online version as previous post, but whatever error messages you might get post them, all info helps.

At one time, the installed web browser could be a problem. At the moment I use slimjet (chromium 76 spinoff ) with kubuntu 18.04 / Gimp 2.10.14 and help comes up ok.

[rich2005]

Going back to your first post

Quote:The help files are there, somewhere. I saw them once, down about eight levels of folders, and they were all XML. I don't have an XML viewer.

That sounds like you downloaded the source for generating the html, never going to work.

Ok, this is the problem. The only installable Gimp help files for ubuntu come from Debian and are no newer than for Gimp 2.8, not recognised by Gimp 2.10 see: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gimp

The help files themselves are mostly html so should be manually installable in any linux Gimp 2.10. I can get a set from my PClinuxOS (rpm based) computer and these seem to work in my 'buntu 18.04. https://i.imgur.com/bBdGCZ4.jpg

They go in /usr/share/gimp folder like this: https://i.imgur.com/OQZcI4H.jpg

...and working: https://i.imgur.com/jLah83t.jpg

If you feel up to trying this, you do need to be able to copy as root, let me know and I will post as a zip file, going to be about 50 MB.

[Ed Ferris]

If offline Help is not available for 2.10, then I'll use the PDF. I have the HTML files from 2.8 (on a Windows computer), but see no need to use them.