About the AddonCollectionManager Plugin in Gimp 3

[saberwarthog]

Hello ! I got a question about a Python plugin (&I hope i'm in the good subsection for that...).

I've been using the AddonCollectionManager in Gimp 2.14 before turning to Gimp 3, I got quite a lot of brushes/patterns/fonts, so this was extremely useful.
But with the change to Python 3 in Gimp 3, it's logical that this plugin is no longer working (plus it's quite old, from the script itself it seems that it's from 2013 & based on GURM ?).

I've seen that @[b]Ofnuts [/b]has worked on it for a rewrite & clean up in 2013, but is there any hope for someone to try making it work in Gimp 3 ?
I could try my hand at it, but I'm not familiar at all with Python, So that could be quite the journey here ^^°

(BTW, Thanks a lot for the plugins I can find here, there's a lot of things to try !)

[Ofnuts]

I'll eventually convert to Gimp3. No date yet, but I have a dozen or so of scripts that are a lot more popular.

[rich2005]

I will add a plus to that request, AddonCollectionManager  continually in use with Gimp 2.10.

Looking at Gimp 3.0, I do not suppose that scripts will refresh and work (not that there are any / many scripts around at the moment).

As a work-around, I suggest a manual option. A dedicated two-pane file manager. This one DoubleCommander appimage. It remembers the last used folders. Keep it just for this use.

   

[Ofnuts]

(03-22-2025, 09:33 AM)rich2005 Wrote: I will add a plus to that request, AddonCollectionManager  continually in use with Gimp 2.10.

OK, by popular request, nudging it up in the conversion queue (but not to the top).

(03-22-2025, 09:33 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Looking at Gimp 3.0, I do not suppose that scripts will refresh and work (not that there are any / many scripts around at the moment).

Would still work on script-fu scripts but not script-fu plug-ins (since we can now have both in v3).

[rich2005]

Yes, that is what I was inferring, Is there a way to refresh scripts, from the Gimp 3.0 menu, without having to restart Gimp ?

[saberwarthog]

Thanks a lot for your answer ! (and your hard work, the layers plugins are great !)

I'm not in a hurry personalty, I have worked without the addon manager for years, but like a lot of other plugins, it's quite addictive very quickly once you get used to them. XD
Plus from what I can understand from the code of the 2.10 / 2.14 version, it uses a lot more modules that are not unique to the Gimp & it manipulate home folders, so that can be tricky to get it right I imagine.

If I end up being impatient, I'll start learning Python 3 & try my hand at it, that will always be useful to learn ! ^^

[vitforlinux]

A .gex format is provided for extensions, and a site to download them, for those who are not able to put scripts in the scripts folder, and plugins in the plugins folder is a good idea.

Above all, it helps to understand that scripts need to be updated.

For programmers a gamble...

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/13070