(08-07-2021, 09:48 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Thank you for the compliment (I think), however unless you write the code and compile it you will always depend on someone else - even you depend on Gimp developers, gmic developers, Ofnuts for his plugins...
You're very welcome, yes it's a compliment, I mean you are doing thing to help people way-way above expectations like compiling a special G'MIC especially for that case, that's a big Woww for me!
(08-07-2021, 09:48 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Gmic and Appimage
- Installing the deb package from gmic.eu without a regular Gimp installed results in a broken package. It is a dynamic version. Not going to work with the Appimage. Not recommended. https://i.imgur.com/eQt2m7b.jpg
- There is a gmic package in the focal repo, gmic 2.4. Old, pulls in a mountain of dependencies, and still not going to work with an appimage. https://i.imgur.com/ZgzSxrB.jpg
OK, now I understand why it's working on my distro and the leftyleo's distro, it's because we do have the regular GIMP installed as well on our systems... Interesting.
(08-07-2021, 09:48 AM)rich2005 Wrote: What is the future for the Appimage.
Sadly it looks like end-of-life for the Appimage, unless someone takes over. It has happened before when the otto-kesselgulasch PPA died and Panda Jim eventually replaced it. It was big gap for regular users filled by the Appimage. There is also a gmic package in the ubuntuhandbook1 PPA but it is gmic 2.9.4 - still not the latest.
About aferrero, I'm kind of worried (about him), I just hope that he only gave up and hope that nothing bad happened to him.
About the gmic package in the ubuntuhandbook1 PPA, I would say that this one we can update it
(08-07-2021, 09:48 AM)rich2005 Wrote: The future after Gimp 2.10.24 and the gmic plugin
- Use the ubuntuhandbook1 PPA Gimp 2.10.x with the gmic.eu zip package. That is a static version, put it in your user profile. Disadvantage no gimp-python packages in the PPA.
- Use the flatpak Gimp version. No need to install python2, for python plugins, it is bundled with the flatpak.
There is a bespoke flatpak gmic. Last time I checked not very up-to-date, Ask the developers. https://i.imgur.com/lwQ38Kd.jpg
I will not speak about Flatpak nor snap as the forum's rules forbid to speak about politic or religion
, nonetheless those two monstrosity which takes forever to start and take so many storage space with so many known problems, for instance to install a plugin which is not flat or snob... If the day come that I feel I have no more choice => Umm how to tell, MX Linux is in my sight for awhile now (I'm just to lazy to save all my data and switch to it, for now), my 2 kids are on MX Linux for a year now (their computers were my testing distro
) It's a beautiful, rock solid, very customizable distro and their standard/regular GIMP from the software center is 2.10.24 
In all cases, thanks a lot rich2005, that was very instructive and interesting.