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Tool Preset Tagging Problem - JackAttack - 08-27-2017
Hi!
I am having a problem with tagging tool preset. Let's say I have two brushes (Sketch Pencil, and Oil Brush) that are not related or even next to another in the tool preset window. Now, let's say I want to tag Oil Brush with a new tag, painting. I click on the Oil Brush Preset, and type painting into the tag window, then press Enter. Now that tag appears in the tag box. Then, if I filter my presets by "painting", instead of Oil Brush showing up, Sketch Pencil shows up. If I click on sketch pencil, "painting" does not show up in the tag box, but it does show up in the Oil Brush tag box. What is going on?
Thanks for all your help in advance!
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - Ofnuts - 08-27-2017
Can't reproduce... Works for me. What version are you using? What OS?
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - JackAttack - 08-27-2017
(08-27-2017, 10:30 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Can't reproduce... Works for me. What version are you using? What OS?
2.8 on Windows 7.
I recently changed computers, and on my last laptop, it seemed to be working fine.
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - Ofnuts - 08-28-2017
Are they parametric brushes or bitmap ones? Do we agree that the top entry field is use for filtering, while the bottom one is used to assign tags to brushes?
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - JackAttack - 08-28-2017
(08-28-2017, 08:40 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Are they parametric brushes or bitmap ones? Do we agree that the top entry field is use for filtering, while the bottom one is used to assign tags to brushes?
I'm not sure how to tell, some of them are .gih, and others are .gbr, is that what you meant? Yes, we agree that the top is for filtering and the bottom for assigning tags.
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - rich2005 - 08-28-2017
Same as Ofnuts, the tags work, more-or-less.
This a vanilla Gimp 2.8.22 in Win7, added 2 standard .gbr brushes
Tagged one of them as 'artistic' screenshot http://i.imgur.com/gONl02W.jpg
It does filter http://i.imgur.com/sazftnn.jpg
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Edit Hang on, just got another look at that, it has tagged the preceding brush. Put this on hold and I will check it again.
Even in linux I am getting some inconsistent results, have to leave it for now. At the moment the only reliable way is editing the tags.xml file.
I must be doing something wrong somewhere.
The sure-fire way is back to basics.
Make sub-folders under brushes for your categories, put the appropriate brushes in those folders. The folder name shows up as the tag
example: http://i.imgur.com/RMHflXF.jpg
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My advice, go into your gimp profile, delete the file tags.xml, start Gimp up to make a new default file.
Try adding your tags again.
If you are using a resources manager, such as ofnuts plugin, do not expect tags to be persistent.
Windoze has such great tools
but if you get an editor such as notepad++ you can inspect and edit that tags.xml file screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/pfSTBjO.jpg
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - rich2005 - 08-29-2017
A new day, another look at assigning tags.
Working as expected. I do not know what I was doing wrong yesterday. Such is life.
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - Kevin - 08-29-2017
Looks like there's a bug already reported for this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784176
RE: Tool Preset Tagging Problem - JackAttack - 08-29-2017
(08-29-2017, 08:08 AM)rich2005 Wrote: A new day, another look at assigning tags.
Working as expected. I do not know what I was doing wrong yesterday. Such is life.
Hi,
I tried deleting the tags.xml file and that didn't do anything, but I also tried your suggestion of going into the folder and organizing into sub-folders. That did work. Problem solved, and although it's a little inconvenient, at least I don't have to go searching through my entire preset collection to find the one I want. I also got a little mixed up in my original post. You mentioned brushes and your screenshots showed brushes, and after looking at my original question, that's what I had written, but my problem was actually with tool presets. But your idea worked there too, so thanks for all your help!