If closing the window is how this works, there should probably be a popup when opening RT (or any program used to import a raw to gimp) that says that you should close the window when finished. This is not at all intuitive: Closing a window feels like losing work not submitting it (that would be an āokā button of some sorts).
Yes, does work although there was a delay. I ran Gimp from a terminal and I could see something was happening. eventually opened.
thanks once more.
Maybe obvious, but still:
Actually usually I am opposed to anything popping up and I think I am not alone with this. So there should be an option to not show it anymore.
yes, that was implied, but I should have stated it explicitly 
Care to elaborate?
Everyone has their own preferences, would be a boring world if everyone was the same.
Nice application but not for me. When I first tried Darktable, some time ago, my first impressions, I do not need another file manager, why does it need to be one.
To be fair to this thread which is Gimp and RT, I just tried Darktable as a plugin to open a RAW image. With the caveate that the DE is KDE I get this.
Denying the KDE wallet a few times (Why that? my regular machine has Wallet disabled) and closing the warning, it was 25 seconds to open/analyse the image to get to the state with the little icon imge at the bottom. All I want is that image into Gimp, taking the hint from RT I closed the window, waited 20 seconds and got the image into Gimp.
Less than a minute but subjectivly seemed much longer. You think, What has gone wrong? Why is it not opening? all the things when nothing happens.
What I really want is a Gimp plug-in that will just open the dā¦ file. I have one but it does not work any more. Opens an image up almost imediately, set the output to 16 bit, 5 seconds into Gimp 2.9.5
Now there is the challenge to RT/Darktable - make one of those.
@agriggio The above sounds like another pop-up after closing RT is needed, saying something like: āRAW is being converted, the result will soon be displayed in Gimp.ā, possibly with a progress bar 
so, why is this a challenge to RT/DT and not a bug report to the now broken plugin that you are happy with?
converting a RAW to a high quality image takes time. Both RT and DT try to be as fast as they can, but thereās no magic in there. If the speed is not acceptable for you, I think wou will have better luck with a solution that trades efficiency for quality.
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Well, for a person who is opposed to pop-ups, you seem to really like them 
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Look at it this way, Gimp 2.9.5 at the moment will only permit DT/RT to open a RAW image from the Gimp File ā Open menu.
Which is fine if you want to use DT/RT I do not have any issues with DT/RT
I would prefer to use a much simpler interface, which if you look at earlier posts (no. 2) one is shown. The plugin still works, but not from the Gimp menu.
You are correct, I need to submit a bug report, but it needs to go to the Gimp maintainers not the plugin.
As far as I am concerned, I found out what I needed, how to get an image out of DT/RT and into Gimp. Close the window. No more discussion required.
Ok, all good then! 
I read most of the thread, but did not see a valid response while I just exercised this feature yesterday with rawtherapee-5.2.
- Click on the upper right āpreferencesā icon.
- Click āGeneralā tab and look at the bottom.
- Should see a section called āExternal Editorsā, and my installed version seems to list āThe Gimpā statically as an option. (Unknown if this option is static, or rawtherapee automatically detects your installed image editors, such as The Gimp.) Make sure The Gimp is selected.
- While editing an image, type āCTRL + eā will save the image to your temporary folder as a TIFF, preserving 16-bit color. (My temporary work folder is /tmp or /home/roger/tmp.) Youāll likely want a listing of all the possible keyboard shortcuts, else it is kind of difficult to perform these actions likely without application buttons. Search for ārawtherapee keyboard shortcutsā. Or, Keyboard Shortcuts - RawPedia
- Immediately after the image is saved (in my case, to /tmp), the image is piped to an instance or tab of The Gimp.
By the way, āCTRL + eā is interpreted as āedit current image within external editorā, or my preferred lingo would be more simplistic āexport imageā!
Does it really say āThe Gimpā? The image editing program is called GIMP, not āThe Gimpā, so if itās as you say then it needs fixing.
āBring out The Gimp.ā 
Here he is! 
Currently I have GIMP 2.9 set up to use darktable, PhotoFlow, and RawTherapee as possible raw processors.
AFAIK any raw processor can be used to open raw files directly from GIMP 2.9. But to make this happen, the raw processor developer does need to use the new GIMP code for connecting the raw processor to GIMPās image import dialog: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786100 - note added: this is the wrong link, not sure how I managed to put a āCā after the ā786100ā, but @rich2005 very kindly posted the correct link below.
It is this one Bug 786100 ā RAW plug-ins limited to Rawtherapee / Darktable I posted it and got knocked back.
Natterer said āAdd that single line gimp_register_file_handler_raw() to the nufraw codeā
Of course it is more complicated (at least to my eyes) than that.
Since I seem to be the only one here, who simply wants something that just opens a RAW file in Gimp, I took the easy way out and disabled the offending plug-in file-raw-placeholder until nufraw is updated.
Back to opening a RAW file in 2 or 3 seconds.
Hi @rich2005 -
You arenāt the only one! Sometimes (actually fairly often) all I want to do is open a raw file very quickly, to make very minimal changes and transfer the result to GIMP. For these occasions, nufraw would be my raw processor of choice. So hopefully the nufraw developer is reading this thread.
I agree with you. At least in my experience modifying code is always āmore complicated than thatā. I downloaded the nufraw source code a few days ago, and quickly realized I didnāt want to try modifying the code. Though the modifications I had in mind were probably more complicated than adding code for being registered as a GIMP plug-in: I wish nufraw provided the AMAZE interpolation algorithm, and it would be nice if nufraw could output 32f in addition to 16k.