[Gimp-developer] thumbnail generation for nautilus via gimp

[David Gowers]

Hi Eckhard,

On Dec 6, 2007 6:29 AM, Eckhard M. Jäger <bart at neeneenee.de> wrote:
>
>
>  Hello,
>
>  i found the problem why the script doesn't showed up, it needs the file
> permission "Exexcute".
>  Do not know why, i have written exporters for Blender and plugins for gEdit
> both in Python but
>  they didn't need the permission "Exexcute".
>
>  Ok, i'm new to Python Gimp plugins.

In fact, all Gimp plugins are executables; when you call a plugin,
GIMP runs it and communicates with it through a pipe. GIMP does not
implement any special behaviour for .py files. That is why Python
plugins must be executable.