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How To Get XCF Thumbnails In Nautilus 3.x [Quick Tip]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Quick tip: You can get XCF thumbnails in Nautilus by using GNOME XCF Thumbnailer. However, the tool needs a fix to work with the latest Nautilus 3.x.</b> This should also work with <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-install-nemo-file-manager-in.html">Nemo</a>, the default Cinnamon file manager.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNfNrfr2yRgxvmT0jUfZwBOhyd4sJPa7yKJGaPDODCURS2x63u5W2nP9WBB62z8c_oJqFmW2-Q-xpTjydialpcRaBMOJ8lKP0iYjpE2JwsT4rlz1w6kliyPBA2Kk-I-rXUI-ch5SwMDs/s1600/xcf-thumbnails-nautilus.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="XCF thumbnails Nautilus 3.8" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNfNrfr2yRgxvmT0jUfZwBOhyd4sJPa7yKJGaPDODCURS2x63u5W2nP9WBB62z8c_oJqFmW2-Q-xpTjydialpcRaBMOJ8lKP0iYjpE2JwsT4rlz1w6kliyPBA2Kk-I-rXUI-ch5SwMDs/s320/xcf-thumbnails-nautilus.png" title="XCF thumbnails Nautilus 3.8" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_%28file_format%29">XCF</a> (eXperimental Computing Facility) is the native image format used by GIMP image editor.</i></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">To get XCF thumbnails in Nautilus, firstly <b>install gnome-xcf-thumbnailer</b>. In Ubuntu, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-xcf-thumbnailer</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">At this point the the thumbnails don't work yet because GNOME XCF Thumbnailer doesn't install a .thumbnailer file, required by Nautilus 3.x. To fix this, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/thumbnailers/<br />echo -e "[Thumbnailer Entry]\nTryExec=gnome-xcf-thumbnailer\nExec=gnome-xcf-thumbnailer %i %o\nMimeType=image/x-xcf;image/x-compressed-xcf;" | sudo tee /usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-xcf.thumbnailer</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">New XCF files (or if you move some already existing XCF files) should have thumbnails now but existing ones may not get thumbnails yet. Let's fix this too by removing the failed thumbnails from cache:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>rm -r ~/.thumbnails/fail<br />rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">That's it. Nautilus should now display XCF file thumbnails, as you can see in my screenshot above. I've tested this with Nautilus <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/get-nautilus-34-features-back-in-ubuntu.html" title="Get Nautilus 3.4 Features Back In Ubuntu 13.04 With SolusOS Patched Nautilus">3.4</a>, 3.6 and 3.8.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2099853">UbuntuForums</a></i></div>

How To Get XCF Thumbnails In Nautilus 3.x [Quick Tip]

Quick tip: You can get XCF thumbnails in Nautilus by using GNOME XCF Thumbnailer. However, the tool needs a fix to work with the latest Naut...

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Install GIMP 2.8.6 In Ubuntu [PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a> 2.8.6</b> has been released recently, bringing many bug fixes and small enhancements. In this release, the single-window mode has received special attention and some annoyances, like the close button not quitting GIMP or the right docks not keeping their size, have been fixed.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9DKIsl6-L1RuRuLR6h-xy_jE2yxubnaodM8gDo-7fuEn_Ow4ZdmcRrBr7ornh575jwYcbI5AjNwjB5LE0yJ0XXvoxihQCt3fdPe9jczAZpmyWs2yNcfU76k8e3kVnOYMJY6xbHX5MQg/s1600/gimp-2.8.6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GIMP 2.8.6" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9DKIsl6-L1RuRuLR6h-xy_jE2yxubnaodM8gDo-7fuEn_Ow4ZdmcRrBr7ornh575jwYcbI5AjNwjB5LE0yJ0XXvoxihQCt3fdPe9jczAZpmyWs2yNcfU76k8e3kVnOYMJY6xbHX5MQg/s320/gimp-2.8.6.png" title="GIMP 2.8.6" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><b>Changes in GIMP 2.8.6 (stable):</b><br /><ul><li>Fix saving to URIs, it was broken to only allow exporting, and fix save/export of compressed files;</li><li>Fix brush spacing for drawing in any direction;</li><li>Increase the maximum size of clipboard brushes and patterns to 1024x1024;</li><li>Make sure data objects are saved when only their name was changed;</li><li>Don't allow single-window docks to shrink smaller than their requisition;</li><li>Make sure a single-window's right docks keep their size across sessions;</li><li>Allow to change the spacing of non-generated brushes again;</li><li>In single-window mode, make Escape move the focus to the canvas and beep if the focus is already there;</li><li>Be smarter about unavailable fonts, and don't crash;</li><li>Make clicking the single-window's close button quit GIMP;</li><li>Make view-close (Ctrl+W) only close image windows and tabs, not docks;</li><li>Add SIGNED_ROUND() which also rounds negative values correctly;</li><li>Make GIMP_PLUGIN_DEBUG work again after GLib changed logging;</li><li>Fix zealous crop for transparent borders;</li><li>Add a default "Color from Gradient" dynamics and tool preset;</li><li>Many other bug fixes and translation updates.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GIMP 2.8.x is the stable branch and no new features will be added. The next major GIMP release will be 2.10, which is expected to be fully ported to GEGL, OpenCL acceleration support in GEGL, get support for layer masks on layer groups, a new wrap tool, seamless cloning, an unified transform tool and more. Then, with GIMP 3.0, the application is expected to be ported to GTK3 (currently work in progress). The estimated release dates for GIMP 2.10 and 3.0 are not known yet.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install GIMP 2.8.6 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to +<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117581776478455814502/posts">Thorsten Stettin</a>'s GIMP PPA which has been updated today, you can <b>install the latest GIMP 2.8.6 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander (currently under development), 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 by using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gimp</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Thorsten's PPA also contains some GIMP goodies which I'm sure you'll like so I'll tell you how to install them below.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GIMP Plugin Registry</b>, a collection of GIMP plugins which includes GIMP FX Foundry and many other useful plugins, can be installed from the same PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Another package available in Thorsten's PPA is <b><a href="http://gmic.sourceforge.net/">G'MIC</a></b>, a tool that's available as a GIMP plugin which comes with a large number of pre-defined image filters and effects (more than 190). Install it using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gimp-gmic</code></pre>And finally, two other packages are available in this PPA: <br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">gimp-help 2.8 (version 2.6 is available in the Ubuntu repositories) for about 19 languages, including English, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Chinese and more - to install it, search for it in Synaptic or USC;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GIMP Lensfun, a plugin to correct lens distortion using the lensfun library - you can install using "sudo apt-get install gimp-lensfun".</li></ul>

Install GIMP 2.8.6 In Ubuntu [PPA]

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GIMP 2.8.4 Released, Install It In Ubuntu

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuUs_g2WOfz6R3j96qwKLrGVU5O6avFE70FYPPJNGRHpZMjWQEoVQD4GP-2J7swk4odokpefS3ry6NTV7rJyYaEd7pk40DHIiyXBvEZ4cSkbQxqJdwW6gqcohpTymkSO1vSULIx1y533w/s1600/gimp-2.8.4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gimp 2.8.4" border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuUs_g2WOfz6R3j96qwKLrGVU5O6avFE70FYPPJNGRHpZMjWQEoVQD4GP-2J7swk4odokpefS3ry6NTV7rJyYaEd7pk40DHIiyXBvEZ4cSkbQxqJdwW6gqcohpTymkSO1vSULIx1y533w/s320/gimp-2.8.4.png" title="gimp 2.8.4" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GIMP 2.8.4</b> has been released yesterday, bringing some important bug fixes. This is the stable GIMP branch and no new features will be added in the 2.8.x releases, only bug fixes.</div><br /><b>Here are the most important changes in GIMP 2.8.4:</b><br /><a name="more"></a><ul><li>Better names for the default filters in save and export</li><li>Make tool drawing (esp. the brush outline) much more responsive</li><li>Remember the "maximized" state across sessions</li><li>Simplify the splash image code a lot, makes it appear immediately again</li><li>Allow the text tool to start on an image without layers</li><li>Various fixes for text style attribute handling</li><li>Set unconfigured input devices to eraser if GTK+ says they are erasers</li><li>Make libgimp drawable combo boxes aware of layer groups</li><li>Fix item width in GimpPageSelector (used e.g. in PDF import)</li><li>Better default values in the Drop Shadow script</li><li>Fixed bugs in the BMP plug-in</li><li>Lots of bug fixes and translation updates</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The next major GIMP release - 2.10 -, should get high bit depths, support for layer masks on layer groups, complete the port to GEGL and more, while with version 3.0, GIMP should finally be ported to GTK3. There's no planned release date for either GIMP 2.10 or 3.0 yet. </div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install GIMP 2.8.4 in Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 users can install the latest GIMP 2.8.4 by using Otto's PPA - add the PPA and install / upgrade GIMP using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gimp</code></pre><br />From the same PPA you can also install <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/new-gimp-plugin-registry-version-brings.html">GIMP Plugin Registry</a> which is a collection of hundreds of GIMP plugins:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry</code></pre><br /><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/gmic-more-than-190-image-filters-and.html">G'MIC</a> is also available in this PPA. It's a tool that comes with a huge list of filters and effects - install it using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gimp-gmic</code></pre><br />For source files, Windows or Mac OS X binaries, see the GIMP <a href="http://www.gimp.org/downloads/">downloads page</a>.

GIMP 2.8.4 Released, Install It In Ubuntu

GIMP 2.8.4 has been released yesterday, bringing some important bug fixes. This is the stable GIMP branch and no new features will be added...

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Install GIMP 2.8.2 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKfGbd-bTsfgjpUIT0qrFXZYpgeEm1SFLWyzIKZBIBxFoWBafS2eOfjoNgyi8PeeP3gW9OWLUARN1iHgASpU-DKn5TGnV5YG2ctqc8n1pf_1KTVzS3doCREoMjDpV3h-pJtqRxjsl89aL/s1600/gimp-2.8.2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gimp 2.8.2" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKfGbd-bTsfgjpUIT0qrFXZYpgeEm1SFLWyzIKZBIBxFoWBafS2eOfjoNgyi8PeeP3gW9OWLUARN1iHgASpU-DKn5TGnV5YG2ctqc8n1pf_1KTVzS3doCREoMjDpV3h-pJtqRxjsl89aL/s320/gimp-2.8.2.png" title="gimp 2.8.2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>GIMP 2.8.2 has been released a few days ago with lots of bug fixes, but without any new features.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><b>Among the changes included in the latest GIMP 2.8.2 are:</b><br /><ul><li>Mention that the image was exported in the close warning dialog</li><li>Fix the visibility logic of the export/overwrite menu items</li><li>Remove all "Use GEGL" menu items, they only add bugs and zero function</li><li>Improve performance of display filters, especially color management</li><li>Fix the image window title to comply with the save/export spec and use the same image name everywhere, not only in the title</li><li>Fix positioning of pasted/dropped stuff to be more reasonable</li><li>Fix remembering of JPEG load/save defaults</li><li>Mac OSX / Windows fixes</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2.8.x series won't include any new features, just bug fixes. The <a href="http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap">plan</a> is to add full GEGL support, high bit depths, an unified transform tool and other new features with GIMP 2.10 and finally port GIMP to GTK3 with version 3.0.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install GIMP 2.8.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The PPA that provides GIMP 2.8.x for Ubuntu 12.04 users has been updated today with the latest GIMP 2.8.2. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the PPA and install GIMP 2.8.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gimp</code></pre><br />For source files, Windows and Mac OSX installers, see the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/downloads/">GIMP download page</a>.

Install GIMP 2.8.2 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

GIMP 2.8.2 has been released a few days ago with lots of bug fixes, but without any new features. Among the changes included in the latest G...

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New GIMP Plugin Registry Version Brings 8 Updated Plugins [PPA]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsKZhgddqpVSQxqM1YgmwHXsNUQcP8aQ1W73srscx5YuyFDcsB_vTgIcCPoy1Bf7NQ9LxuIN4oTydPw0vItTv_BbKnYLkHKj1PSfS4WI7d2mSrvGPDMenpyBvu-Ybml4JNcVSShEkAuB9/s1600/gimp-plugin-registry.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gimp plugin registry" border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsKZhgddqpVSQxqM1YgmwHXsNUQcP8aQ1W73srscx5YuyFDcsB_vTgIcCPoy1Bf7NQ9LxuIN4oTydPw0vItTv_BbKnYLkHKj1PSfS4WI7d2mSrvGPDMenpyBvu-Ybml4JNcVSShEkAuB9/s320/gimp-plugin-registry.png" title="gimp plugin registry" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GIMP Plugin Registry is a collection of GIMP plugins which includes <a class="external" href="http://gimpfx-foundry.sourceforge.net/">GIMP FX Foundry</a> and many other useful plugins.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">With a bit of a delay (sorry!), I've updated the GIMP Plugin Registry package available in the main WebUpd8 PPA with the latest version from Debian unstable. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new version brings a <b>new plugin: GIMP Resynthesizer</b> (content aware fill), a plugin which, given a sample of texture, can create more of that texture. It can be used for removing objects from images, creating themed images and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There are also 8 updated plugins:</b> <a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/101">add-filmgrain</a>, <a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/120">contactsheet</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/elsamuko/gimp">elsamuko</a> (which consists of 23 cool effects, including: color tint, sunny landscape, movie 300, photochrom, vintage look, che guevarra, obama hope, antique photo border, technicolor 2 & 3 and more), <a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/24537">ez-perspective</a>, <a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/1444">focusblur</a>, <a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/186">layerfx</a>, <a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/18435">openraster</a> and <a href="http://registry.gimp.org/node/33">safe-for-web</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install GIMP Plugin Registry in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're using the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/gimp-28-stable-finally-available-for.html">GIMP 2.8 PPA in Ubuntu 12.04</a>, you'll find the latest GIMP Plugin Registry available in that PPA so all you have to do is search for it in Ubuntu Software Center / Synaptic for it.</div><br /><b>Older Ubuntu version (11.10, 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04) users or Ubuntu 12.04 users who haven't added the GIMP 2.8 PPA can install the latest GIMP Plugin Registry by adding the main WebUpd8 PPA:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">(there aren't any conflicts if you add both the main WebUpd8 PPA and the GIMP 2.8 PPA: GIMP Plugin Registry from the GIMP 2.8 PPA will be installed if this PPA is enabled and not the version in our PPA)</div><br />Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/download-gimp-28-script-fus-pack-more.html">Download GIMP 2.8 Script-FUs Pack (More Than 100 Effects And Filters)<br /></a>

New GIMP Plugin Registry Version Brings 8 Updated Plugins [PPA]

GIMP Plugin Registry is a collection of GIMP plugins which includes GIMP FX Foundry and many other useful plugins. With a bit of a delay (s...

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