Hi I’m trying to set up gimp 3.0 to open as an external editor in ART but can not find the .exe file.
I have found the Gimp 3.0 folder but can’t locate the .exe file
From what i gather it’s meant to be in the “bin” folder but that is also not visible.
Any help will be welcome.
Thanks
On my Linux system I don’t have gimp.exe, but it works just fine:
$ which gimp
/usr/bin/gimp
$ gimp --version
GNU Image Manipulation Program version 3.0.4If you install GIMP 3.0 from Microsoft Store, you cannot find GIMP exe file. It is installed in the directory where user cannot control.
You must install GIMP 3.0 using ordinary install file downloaded from GIMP official site.
Someone created a python plugin for GIMP called Shellout which allows GIMP to call external programs to do processing and returning that result back into GIMP. I would share a link, but, GIMPChat apparently is down at the moment (at least for me). Not sure if ART allows running python plugins, but if it does, maybe something similar can be done for ART. 
Thanks Yasuo. I went to the GIMP official site and downloaded Gimp 3.0.4 and was then able to locate the gimp-3.0.exe file in the bin folder. However this file along with all the other files in the bin folder was not highlighted and not be clicked on.
Is the correct exe file located somewhere else?
You can find a hook to Windows (Microsoft) store apps at
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
WindowsApps is a hidden folder, but you can access it as a non-priviledged user.
I.e. the executable from Python3 from the Microsoft store is there as python3.exe with the length 0. Nevertheless this launches the app store file.
It works for me to launch store apps from Xnview MP.
I hope it helps
My GIMP 2.10.34 does that just by setting RawTherapee in Preferences without the need for a Python script.
That’s cool, but I can push results in GIMP into such programs as XNView, Irfanview, and Inkscape (Inkscape has a lot of unique bitmap filters that don’t exist outside of Inkscape) and Paintdotnet and then port the result right back into the GIMP.
As a side note, GIMPChat’s back up (but still very flaky, sadly) so link below to the thread that started it all.
ShellOut.py (was XNViewShell) - Call external programs • GIMP Chat
Sounds good especially if it can port out of the GIMP to anywhere and back. My use is to open a raw file after opening the GIMP, which RawTherapee then converts and allows, sending the result of that back to GIMP/G’MIC . Like you said, getting the best of both apps.