Rich, a question about the official Gimp 3.2 AppImage release

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Rich, with many tears shed and not a small amount of regret, I've decided to leave your personally altered Gimp 2.10.38 and 3.0 AppImages behind while upgrading my OS to Mint 22.3 from 22.2.

You many remember that I could no longer enter text of any type in any dialog boxes of those AppImages after the upgrade to Mint 22.3. Not wanting to lag behind on Mint releases, I decided to start using the official Gimp 3.2 AppImage from Gimp.org.

Since I'm not using Debian Trixie 13 or better, many things in this 3.2 AppImage don't work and I expected that and would like to check with you one more time to make sure I'm up on all the latest news.

Is there currently anyway possible for a user of Mint 22.3, based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble, to have a functioning G'Mic plugin for Gimp while using the official 3.2 AppImage for those who don't use flatpaks, snaps, debs, or ppa's?  G'Mic has just the Debian 13 and Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky "plugin" downloads available. 

Same question for the Resynthesizer plugin. I think I know the answers already, I just wanted to double check with you to make sure I'm not missing out on anyting.

[rich2005]

(3 hours ago)CtrlAltDel Wrote: Rich, with many tears shed and not a small amount of regret, I've decided to leave your personally altered Gimp 2.10.38 and 3.0 AppImages behind while upgrading my OS to Mint 22.3 from 22.2.

You many remember that I could no longer enter text of any type in any dialog boxes of those AppImages after the upgrade to Mint 22.3. Not wanting to lag behind on Mint releases, I decided to start using the official Gimp 3.2 AppImage from Gimp.org.

Since I'm not using Debian Trixie 13 or better, many things in this 3.2 AppImage don't work and I expected that and would like to check with you one more time to make sure I'm up on all the latest news.

Is there currently anyway possible for a user of Mint 22.3, based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble, to have a functioning G'Mic plugin for Gimp while using the official 3.2 AppImage for those who don't use flatpaks, snaps, debs, or ppa's?  G'Mic has just the Debian 13 and Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky "plugin" downloads available. 

Same question for the Resynthesizer plugin. I think I know the answers already, I just wanted to double check with you to make sure I'm not missing out on anyting.

The problem with the gimp.org Gimp appimage is it is based on this Debian 12 "bookworm"

quote:  Using Docker executor with image registry.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/gimp:build-debian-bookworm-x86_64_v3 ...  

Whatever that is ....

To compile anything for that needs a working Gimp 3.x in Debian 12 and as far as I know there is none.  That is the big snag with that appimage. In that context the answer is no.

Just as a note, I have gone to a Mint 22.3 (with KDE ) and regular Gimp 3.2 from a PPA , that gives the packages to compile for 'ubuntu based distros.

Also a Gimp 2.10 appimage for all those sorely missed scripts and plugins that do not work with Gimp 3.x  

I just looked at it and ...time to move on... although I might re-install with kubuntu 26.04 (when it comes out)

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(2 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote: Just as a note, I have gone to a Mint 22.3 (with KDE ) and regular Gimp 3.2 from a PPA , that gives the packages to compile for 'ubuntu based distros.

Also a Gimp 2.10 appimage for all those sorely missed scripts and plugins that do not work with Gimp 3.x  

Thanks, Rich.  In my entire, long screed, I forgot to mention that I'm using the Cinnamon DE.  Luckily, I think you remembered that.  
I certainly may give KDE a try and thanks for the suggestion.

[rich2005]

(2 hours ago)CtrlAltDel Wrote:

(2 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote: Just as a note, I have gone to a Mint 22.3 (with KDE ) and regular Gimp 3.2 from a PPA , that gives the packages to compile for 'ubuntu based distros.

Also a Gimp 2.10 appimage for all those sorely missed scripts and plugins that do not work with Gimp 3.x  

Thanks, Rich.  In my entire, long screed, I forgot to mention that I'm using the Cinnamon DE.  Luckily, I think you remembered that.  
I certainly may give KDE a try and thanks for the suggestion.

I would stick with what you are familiar with.  The KDE desktop for Mint is not wonderful that is why I will probably go to kubuntu 26.04 when it comes out.

I made the switch to basically the reverse of what I used previously, a regular install of Gimp 2.10 (need that for my scanner amongst other things) and a Gimp 3.x appimage - now the other way round. Early days, still setting things up but both gmic and resynth work with Gimp 3.2

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(1 hour ago)rich2005 Wrote:

(2 hours ago)CtrlAltDel Wrote:

(2 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote: Just as a note, I have gone to a Mint 22.3 (with KDE ) and regular Gimp 3.2 from a PPA , that gives the packages to compile for 'ubuntu based distros.

Also a Gimp 2.10 appimage for all those sorely missed scripts and plugins that do not work with Gimp 3.x  

Thanks, Rich.  In my entire, long screed, I forgot to mention that I'm using the Cinnamon DE.  Luckily, I think you remembered that.  
I certainly may give KDE a try and thanks for the suggestion.

I would stick with what you are familiar with.  The KDE desktop for Mint is not wonderful that is why I will probably go to kubuntu 26.04 when it comes out.

I made the switch to basically the reverse of what I used previously, a regular install of Gimp 2.10 (need that for my scanner amongst other things) and a Gimp 3.x appimage - now the other way round. Early days, still setting things up but both gmic and resynth work with Gimp 3.2

You are probably correct.  

I have only ever used Mint while using Linux, started on Mint 5 Elyssa Gnome in 2008, and then only ever used the Cinnamon DE since it was created in late 2011 to compliment Mint. I've tried KDE on some older version Mint live USB's when KDE was still packaged by Mint and never really cared too much for it.

I suppose I could give Kubuntu a try like you but, for me, it's probably just too much to just get a properly working Gimp.  I'm not even really that talented or skilled in Gimp like you are.  I can probably get by with the official release of the Gimp AppImages from Gimp.org until maybe, one day, my version of Mint and the Cinnamon DE and their version of Gimp match up and play well together.