[Klug-general] Next Meeting - 1st March 2014

[Thomas Edward Groves]

Thanks for the advice.
It would be SO useful if  any of my books on GIMP was about
2.8!
And even bothered to mention how to select a file.

Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Sinclair <bigcheese at refurbodepot.co.uk>
To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Next Meeting - 1st March 2014


> It sounds like you have the preview mode off.  Though I don't know how
> to resize the thumbnails (I think that might be controlled by the file
> browser) I can suggest (in Gimp) to try clicking through:
> 'Edit/Preferences' then under 'Image Thumbnails / Size of thumbnails:
> select 'large'.  At least this way you can get a preview as opposed to
> nothing.
>
> The way I manipulate multiple files at once with a good preview is to
> open the file folder with your system file browser, which also gives you
> a good thumbnail preview, use 'View' and select 'Icons'. Then Shift
> right click or Ctrl right click on the images you would like to work
> with and select 'Open with' and then 'Gimp'.
>
> This will have one instance of Gimp open with multiple image windows for
> each file.  Also try installing Davids batch if you intend on doing
> batch processing... or Phatch for automatic batch processing.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 19/02/14 06:38, Thomas Edward Groves wrote:
> > In GIMP: to select an image to open I click on Open then navigate to the
> > directory I want.
> > At this point I've got a list of files in that directory, by name, each
line
> > starting
> > with a tiny patch of colour which can just be seen to be the smallest
most
> > useless
> > image possible.
> > My question is: is there any way to make those images big enough to be
> > useful.
> >
> > Incidentally Krita has the same thing but also has a slider to adjust
the
> > image sizes.
> >
> > The objection to using something like Gwenview to open an image is that
it
> > opens a separate
> > instance of GIMP for each image and I want to have two or more images
open
> > at once
> > in one instance of GIMP.
> >
> > Basically GIMP's  "image browser" (what else can we call it?) is a naff
> > afterthought
> > that I would be ashamed of it was my work.
> >
> > Tom
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Paul Littlefield <info at paully.co.uk>
> > To: <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Next Meeting - 1st March 2014
> >
> >
> >> On 18/02/14 06:12, Thomas Edward Groves wrote:
> >>> 1) in the Gimp is there any way to make the image browser use larger
> > (visible) thumbnails?
> >> Not sure. I use GIMP a lot, where do you mean?
> >>
> >>> 2) how do I check if a flashdrive is still busy loading files BEFORE I
> > umount and unplug it?
> >> lsof /dev/sdXX
> >>
> >> man lsof
> >>
> >>
> >> Also, I use the 'sync' command just to make sure the computer has
written
> > all the data to the drive. It will do that anyway, but sometimes I just
need
> > to be sure.
> >> If it hangs when you run this, just wait... and wait some more.
> >>
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