single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
Is it possible to set up gimp such that typing 'gimp foo.xcf' on the commandline will just open foo.xcf in a currently running Gimp session? I've seen no documentation on this anyhere. I know this is a feature, but I would find it tremendously useful to add before 1.2... (or maybe in 1.2.1 or s

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Alex Harford
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > Is it possible to set up gimp such that typing 'gimp foo.xcf' on the > commandline will just open foo.xcf in a currently running Gimp > session? I've seen no documentation on this anyhere. > > I know this is a feature, but I would find it tremend

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Michael Natterer
Alex Harford wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > > Is it possible to set up gimp such that typing 'gimp foo.xcf' on the > > commandline will just open foo.xcf in a currently running Gimp > > session? I've seen no documentation on this anyhere. > > > > I know this is a fea

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:44AM +0200, Michael Natterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking of a Gimp extension "gimp-server" or something which would Actually, this is called "Perl-Server" > The pipe protocol could be as trivial as sending a plaintext string like I posted a oneline

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:44AM +0200, Michael Natterer wrote: > > > Is it possible to set up gimp such that typing 'gimp foo.xcf' on the > > > commandline will just open foo.xcf in a currently running Gimp > > > session? I've seen no documentation on this anyhere. > > It's been abl

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-30 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:44AM +0200, Michael Natterer wrote: > > The netscape method of communicating over the X protocol seems a bit > overkill to me. > IMHO using X makes much more sense than abusing the filesystem. Both ways of doing it (that were discussed so far) won't work on no

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-30 Thread Mattias EngdegÄrd
>IMHO using X makes much more sense than abusing the filesystem. > >Both ways of doing it (that were discussed so far) won't work on non-UNIX >platforms anyway, so I guess we can safely rely on X for this feature. The problem with using X is that the xterm where "gimp " is invoked is not necessa

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-30 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
> I was thinking of a Gimp extension "gimp-server" or something which would > open a Unix pipe > > ${gimp_dir}/tmp/gimp_remote. > > with the permissions of the current user (or configurable) and > a "gimp-remote" standalone program. > > The pipe protocol could be as trivial as sending

Re: single-instance gimp? (using gnome)

2000-03-31 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Federico Mena Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This should really use a CORBA interface and register some sort of > singleton factory object for images or other GIMP services. > > (Look at how singleton applications work in GNOME; the Midnight > Commander or the Panel ar

Re: single-instance gimp? (using gnome)

2000-04-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:44:58AM +0200, Raphael Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > applications. Well, over the last year I discovered that it was not > the case and that it was possible to install some GNOME libraries It is _no longer_ the case, fortunately ;) > would avoid the duplication