Bug 31824 – gimp-remote not installed with gimp (or gimp toolbox?)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark Hughes 2003-10-23 08:39:19 UTC]

I am no expert on these things, but I believe this is correct.

According to the man page gimp-remote is a small utility that tells a running
gimp to open a (local or remote) image file. It does so by searching for a gimp
toolbox on the active display. If it can find a gimp toolbox, a synthetic drop
event is created which makes gimp think the files would have been dropped onto
the toolbox. 

The default gnome desktop simply uses "gimp" to open .jpg files.  If one opens 5
jpegs sequentially, 5 instances of the gimp get started.  If gimp-remote were
available and substituted as the default action for jpgs, only one instance of
gimp would get started.  (Similarly, our default install of GQview tries to use
"gimp-remote -n %f" to open several image files at once without starting a new
instance of gimp each time.  Since gimp-remote doesn't seem to be available, the
default install of GQview is also a bit bunged up.)

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Mark Hughes 2003-10-23 08:50:30 UTC]

Oops.  GQview will work if gimp-remote -n is changed to just gimp.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-10-24 06:53:37 UTC]

i think gimp-remote getting built depends on the gnome USE flag (*provide
your 'emerge info' in bug reports please*).

reopen if im wrong.

[Comment 3 Mark Hughes 2003-10-28 15:02:55 UTC]

I am sorry but I don't see which USE flag it would be.  Here's the emerge
info

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ http://gentoo.noved.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif gpm jpeg libg++ libwww mad
mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms
xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga tcltk java
guile X sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis opengl mozilla cdr
scanner cups gnome gtk -kde -qt"