How to Center Text on Path?

[Canuck Sailor]

(12-23-2022, 01:29 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(12-22-2022, 09:18 PM)Canuck Sailor Wrote: EDIT - Maybe I'm NOT as dumb as I figured here. After screwing around with things for a while, I got this to work as advertised. Now to see if I can make it do what I need.

Ok, I'm NOT computer savvy at this level and I'm lost at this explanation of how to get this plug in to work. WHERE do I put the plug in? Do I have to create a plug in folder? Here's what I've found and where I found it -

Library>Application Support>GIMP>2.10>Filters

Do I create a plug in folder and if so, do I put in inside 2.10 or inside Filters? Filters contains the following fyi:

GimpHueSaturationConfig.settings
GimpBrightnessContrastConfig.settings
GimpGegl-gegl-cartoon-config.settings
GimpGegl-gegl-color-to-alpha-config.settings
GimpGegl-gegl-exposure-config.settings
GimpGegl-gegl-focus-blur-config.settings

What is the proper name for the folder: Plug ins, or Plug in? (do caps matter here? I have no idea). Do I put the Docs in there as well, or retain them elsewhere to read?
What I have done is created a Plug Ins folder inside GIMP, put the PY script into it and restarted the program. I. do NOT see the Tools sub menu mentioned above. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
Can someone lead me through this process please? All I'd really like to do is create a curved text path with the text in the middle to complete a design I'm working on. And WHY this function isn't native to the program should be addressed and corrected.

See the big Installation section at the bottom of the page where you dowloaded the ZIP from.

Copied from ofnut's page -

 Intended Audience
Advanced End Users

I am NOT any kind of advanced user. I made that clear with my original post. To me, a Python is a large African snake. There are many of us who, like me, wish to use GIMP but don't have the kind of programming knowledge you folks here have. My last (and only) exposure to coding was Fortran IV when I was in high school, two years before the HP handheld scientific calculators came out, at $400. And for the record, I nearly failed that course. Not part of my skill set.
But this much I can tell you, there is NO section titled "Installation anywhere on the ofnuts Gimp path tools page. Nor is there anything about installation on any of the tabs on that page.
It's ok - I stumbled my way through, actually got it right with some luck and guesswork, and was able to complete the project I was working on. I'll try not to bother you again, because I know it's a nuisance dealing with we lesser folk who don't have the esoteric understanding of bits and bytes that you do. 
You know, you really should make all this open source stuff off limits to clueless types like me. It would save you so much trouble.
/SARC off.

For the record, I still have copies of Photoshop 1.0, Quark 1.0, Word 1.0 and a variety of other commercial publishing software products in my attic. I was one of the very first desktop publishers, back in the 80s, and actually produced a monthly 32 page newspaper using a Mac Plus with an external 800k disc drive. To accomplish that required almost a half hour of swapping the system, program and file disks through the two drives before taking the file disk to a service to get it laser printed, an 11 x 17 laser printer being well over $10k at that point.
Then we had to get the photos screen printed, scanners not having been invented yet, and wax them onto the page, before sending the flats off to the printer to be turned into negatives for printing, since neither PDF files nor the internet had been invented yet. If we had any colour on the page, we had to create rubies to deal with that (https://youtu.be/P_CPKjn3wBQ).
Four colour printing for newspapers was unheard of. I didn't do a full colour front page until almost the mid 90s, and again, I was one of the first. And we still had to get separations done, the software hadn't been created that would do it automatically.
 I watched the entire printing and publishing industry go through these changes to become what we have today, I was a part of all that change. I had employees who actually worked with lead type before this time to set the newspapers they worked for - I wonder if you know what that is? Here ya go - https://letterpresscommons.com/setting-type-by-hand/
I was a part of the discussion on how to use Photoshop in editorial vs advertising in Canada, a big issue at the time in the industry, given the power we now had with our computers to "alter" photographic reality. 
Up until I sold the business in 2002, I kept an angled art board and a waxer in my graphic designer's office to remind everyone where we had come from.
You probably have no idea how easy it is to do graphics work now as compared to even 25 years ago. So when someone struggles with figuring out how to work with Gimp, especially something like scripts that are not part of the original program and involve digging deeply into one's computer to find files one has never been to before, how about lending them a hand rather than just point out non-existent installation instructions from your on-high place of knowledge?
Hell, even a link would have been helpful. I thought open source was about sharing the knowledge, and not some cabal of high priests who look down on us unlearned peasants.
I think this is about where you respond with "Hey Boomer".