[Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - "home folder"

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:11 AM, paul taney <paultaney at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> >> Is there a method to discover the GIMP version
>> and/or ~/.gimp folder
>> >> that works across platform (from python)?
>> gimp.directory
>
>
> On a Mac running gimp2.4.5
>
>   print "gimp.directory = %s" % gimp.directory
> prints
>    gimp.directory = /Users/paultaney/Library/Application Support/Gimp
>
> ...but my plugin fails to run from there.  It does not appear in the menus.
>
> Nor will it run from ~/.gimp-2.4/plug-ins  or ~/.gimp-2.4/scripts
>
> I have only managed to make it run from one location:
>
> % cat push.sh
> cp stroke_to_vector.py  /Applications/Gimp.app//Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/
> chmod +x  /Applications/Gimp.app//Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/stroke_to_vector.py

That's interesting.  if you create a custom palette on a Mac, does it
end up in ~/.gimp or /Applications/Gimp.app//Contents/<somewhere> ?

Thanks,
Chris