I had Gimp 2.10.12 on my machine. While working an image, my fingers slipped and suddenly my tools/dialog box was much different:  fewer tool icons were displayed, and the dialog box was completely unfamiliar:  the dialog box also did not change depending on which tool (of the fewer tools) I chose.  So while I can choose "text", I am, for example, unable to choose a  font, and while I can choose "brush", I am unable to choose the size of my brush. The new dialog box window(s?) contain nothing.

   

I had been working with black as my foreground color and red as the background. That is relevant; please bear with me.

I went into Windows (10; 64-bit) "Settings" and uninstalled Gimp 2.10.12.  I went to gimp.org and downloaded 2.10.20.  I opened the new Gimp -- and I have the same reduced tool menu, the same unreadable, unworkable dialog box(es) -- AND THE SAME COLORS, black (foreground) & red (background).

I uninstalled & downloaded again. Didn't help.

I ran CCleaner, complete with "wipe free space", restarted my computer and tried again.  Once again the new download displays the same abbreviated tool menu, the same lack of usable dialog for the tools, AND THE SAME COLORS.

??? It feels like the old, broken version is somehow "haunting" my machine & corrupting the new downloads....

Please note, in the image labeled "normal gimp" -- that's Gimp 2.8, which I have on an old machine, but the tool/dialog box looks much like what I *used* to have in 2.10.12, & what I expect to see:
   

Hello,
The gimp window fills the entire screen and I cannot access the unit or scale boxes at the bottom of the screen.
In addition the toolbox extends right down the screen and I cannot access the functions at the bottom.
Any help to resolve this issue would be gratefully received,
                                                                                           Yours,
                                                                                         halligant

Anyone ever used this plugin? The one in the post (link here included) promise that it is working. I've tried to used it, placed the downloaded files in the /user/app/...but don't find the plugin in gimp (even with the plug-in browser). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
https://www.gimpscripts.net/search?updat...date=false
Look under : Plugin-autotrace.py Ver 0.5

Hi there,
I am a new member who just joins today. Perhaps somebody can help me please. I would like to automatically extract speech baloon/bubble and panel of a comic book. Example is given below. What would be the best technique in GIMP to do this please. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

This is bound to be a really simple problem. 
I downloaded an image. I needed to replace some things with white Problem is, when I open the color menu to select the color white, it doesn't actually draw the color white.
https://imgur.com/NN5R1gs
Here we see what the color menu option looks like, and the color it drew onto my image.
Thanks for your time.

Using pencil+left click drag to make straight lines. Doing a double left click to end line does not work, it remains in draw mode ?
Looking for quickest way.

Thanks

After failing for the fourth time, I give up for today.

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GIMP 2.10.2 (revision 1)
Windows 10

When GIMP fails to register a plugin where does it report the reason(s) for failing the registration?

GIMP 2.10.2 (revision 1)
Windows 10

I have written a plugin in Python that iteratively merges a sequence of image files creating an output image of each iteration.  
 
When I launch GIMP the plugin appears in the menu as expected but it is greyed-out.  If I open an image file the plugin becomes usable.

How do I get GIMP to activate the plugin at launch time without the need to open a random image file?

A not-so-recent script of mine, that just got an upgrade. Removes strokes from paths using various measure criteria (length, area...).

Available here.