Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

On 2008-06-02, John DuBois <spcecdt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <0JU0k.2854$uE5.1152@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Michael Soibelman  <in-the@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Ignoramus27711 wrote:
>>> On 2008-05-31, John DuBois <spcecdt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> The last im****tant xv characteristic that I haven't yet found a way
>>>> to emulate is the behavior of only opening one
>>>> command-line-specified file at a time, and easily (from the
>>>> keyboard) going on to the next image when I'm done with the current
>>>> one.  Is there a way of making the gimp behave this way?  That is -
>>>> I want to specify the files to operate on on the command line, and I
>>>> do *not* want them all opened initially; I may be perusing, and
>>>> selectively editing, several hundred images in one round (all
>>>> selected according to some criteria on the command line).  In xv,
>>>> it's a matter of "hit space to open the next image in place of the
>>>> current one"; the closer to that I can get, the better...
>>> 
>>> You just need a simple shell script
>>> 
>>> for i in *.jpg; do
>>>   gimp $i
>>> done
>>> 
>>> the little overhead here is in starting a new instance of gimp every
>>> time.
>>> 
>>
>>Sorry if I'm wrong about this but I'm not a very good programmer !! 
Just
>>BASIC !1  Seems to me that if you changed this 'gimp $i'  to
'gimp-remote
>>$i' you would save a lot of overhead ??  This leaves just one instance
of
>>Gimp running but opens up each image in its' own window...
>
> Thanks, this is a useful idea.  I don't want to start a new instance of
gimp
> for each image, with the startup overhead, losing the history that
allows me to
> rerun the last filter, etc.  gimp-remote avoids that, and if I use a
shell loop
> that includes a 'read', going on to the next image become a matter of
closing
> the image window and then hitting return to tell gimp-remote to push the
next
> image open.

except gimp-remote does not seem to tell you when gimp is done with
the image. 

I edit my pictures from a big perl script, that downloads pix frmo the
camera, calls picture editor (xv or gimp), and then for every picture
left unedited, asks if I want to delete it. Makes for a nice
workflow. 

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