How to link Gimp and Darktabel if they are both installed via Flatpak ( Linux)

Software GIMP
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I can not open a raw file from within Gimp that normally opens Darktable as raw " convertor"
In preferences there is a placeholder , but i get only a error .
Is this because both programs are installed with flatpak?
More info :
OS = Linux ( ubuntu flavour)
Preferences : ${gimp_plug_in_dir}/plug-ins/file-raw-placeholder/file-raw-placeholder

2

That is likely the problem. Also the darktable plugin is likely trying to call darktable instead of flatpak run org.darktable.Darktable

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Sorry for the late reply ( due Newyear) .
I’m aware of that , but the syntax in preferences in Gimp is not editable.
Is there another way ?

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I’m no flatpak guru nor am I familiar with the specifics of how GIMP is calling the plugin. And, this is a long shot (definitely a dirty kludge) but… Could you write a ‘darktable’ script with the flatpak syntax and put it in your $PATH? If the GIMP plugin sees that script as the binary it might work. Just make sure to pass all arguments along,

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You might be able to alias the flatpak command to the actual program name using a shell alias.

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That’s much cleaner than a wrapper script if it’ll work.

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Thanks , for the info ( also to paperdigits)
I will give it a try . First i have to know what the filename extension should be for a script that Gimp will understand. And also the right path, because i have 3 such paths in preferences.
So , i’ll try first a " normal" plug in and see for the extension and then try to write a script .
Thanks , i’ll report the result later.

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As @paperdigits suggested an alias might (?) work instead of a script. That’s even less effort, for example:

[len@polaris] ~ $ alias showmyfiles="ls -al"
[len@polaris] ~ $ showmyfiles
total 212
drwxr-xr-x 8 len  len    4096 May 12  2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Mar 20  2022 ..
-rw------- 1 len  len    5440 Dec 27 22:30 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 len  len     220 Mar 20  2022 .bash_logout

…and so forth.

If you want it to apply automatically, put it in your ~/.bash_profile (sourced at login) or ~/.bashrc (sourced at each shell invocation). I generally put environment stuff like this in /etc/profile.d/custom.sh and then source that from ~/.bashrc but that’s also for system-wide stuff. Your choice.