Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

In article <zcWdnQBnP4D3HdnVnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Ignoramus27711  <ignoramus27711@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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. 

That's why I'd have the shell loop do a read, and hit return (in the
terminal
window exposed by closing the image window) to tell gimp-remote to push
the
next image open.  That gets it down to ^W to close the current image
window,
and return to open the next, which is pretty good, and with a bit more
work it
could have the ability to back up to the previous image or generally to go
to a
different point in the image list as in xv.  

	John
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