On 02/11/2015 10:25 PM, Seldom Needy wrote:

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Seldom Needy wrote:

I was wondering about the operation of importing and exporting keyboard shortcuts for GIMP. In

See the note at the very bottom of this page: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-shortcuts.html

Basically, you should be able to copy the menurc file from one machine to the other.

Chris

From the linked article:

"Custom Keyboard shortcuts are stored in one of Gimp's hidden directory (/home/[username]/.gimp-2.8/menurc) under Linux, and C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\.gimp-2.8\menurc under Windows XP. It is a simple text file that you can transport from one computer to another."

As stated, I was looking to port keyboard customizations in Windows 7 and 8, which are not explicitly documented (unlike XP). But, having searched my hard drive with the hint, I found a menurc in the location C:\Program Files\GIMP 2_8\etc\gimp\2.0\menurc

I imagine it's the same arrangement, barring that the paths are a bit different. I will go ahead and test that theory tomorrow.

No. What the docs try to tell you, but fail - due to changes in the windows user directory locations - is that this file is located in your personal GIMP user profile directly, which is located in your Windows user profile.

A better approach for the docs - and other places that try to tell people how to locate their personal GIMP directories - would be to not mention *any* directories, but show users how to find out that location themselves:

1. Go to the Folders section in the GIMP preferences 2. See two folders there (in the default settings)

Example: http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-pimping.html#gimp-prefs-folders-data

One of them refers to a directory located where GIMP is installed, one refers to the corresponding directory in the users profile folder.

Browse them in a file manager - for example Windows Explorer - and have a look at a few of the files in them - for example with a good text editor (*not* Notepad) to get a feel for what is located there. The time spent on this is well invested.

Regards,
Michael
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On 11/02/15 23:11, Michael Schumacher wrote:

On 02/11/2015 10:25 PM, Seldom Needy wrote:

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Seldom Needy wrote:

I was wondering about the operation of importing and exporting keyboard shortcuts for GIMP. In

See the note at the very bottom of this page: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-shortcuts.html

Basically, you should be able to copy the menurc file from one machine to the other.

Chris

From the linked article:

"Custom Keyboard shortcuts are stored in one of Gimp's hidden directory (/home/[username]/.gimp-2.8/menurc) under Linux, and C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\.gimp-2.8\menurc under Windows XP. It is a simple text file that you can transport from one computer to another."

As stated, I was looking to port keyboard customizations in Windows 7 and 8, which are not explicitly documented (unlike XP). But, having searched my hard drive with the hint, I found a menurc in the location C:\Program Files\GIMP 2_8\etc\gimp\2.0\menurc

I imagine it's the same arrangement, barring that the paths are a bit different. I will go ahead and test that theory tomorrow.

No. What the docs try to tell you, but fail - due to changes in the windows user directory locations - is that this file is located in your personal GIMP user profile directly, which is located in your Windows user profile.

A better approach for the docs - and other places that try to tell people how to locate their personal GIMP directories - would be to not mention *any* directories, but show users how to find out that location themselves:

1. Go to the Folders section in the GIMP preferences 2. See two folders there (in the default settings)

Example: http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-pimping.html#gimp-prefs-folders-data

One of them refers to a directory located where GIMP is installed, one refers to the corresponding directory in the users profile folder.

Browse them in a file manager - for example Windows Explorer - and have a look at a few of the files in them - for example with a good text editor (*not* Notepad) to get a feel for what is located there. The time spent on this is well invested.

An even better approach for both the docs and the applications itself is to have:

1) some place in the Preferences (top of "Folders?") that explicitly states where the profile is.
2) maybe even have a button that opens it using the platform's file explorer 3) likewise the user's folders for the various add-ons could be enhanced with an "open explorer here" button. Then instructions become "click button, drag&drop files".