Re: single-instance gimp? (using gnome)

2000-04-01 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:44:58AM +0200, Raphael Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: applications. Well, over the last year I discovered that it was not the case and that it was possible to install some GNOME libraries It is _no longer_ the case, fortunately ;) would avoid the duplication of

Re: single-instance gimp? (using gnome)

2000-03-31 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Federico Mena Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should really use a CORBA interface and register some sort of singleton factory object for images or other GIMP services. (Look at how singleton applications work in GNOME; the Midnight Commander or the Panel are good

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-30 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:44AM +0200, Michael Natterer wrote: The netscape method of communicating over the X protocol seems a bit overkill to me. IMHO using X makes much more sense than abusing the filesystem. Both ways of doing it (that were discussed so far) won't work on

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-30 Thread Mattias EngdegÄrd
IMHO using X makes much more sense than abusing the filesystem. Both ways of doing it (that were discussed so far) won't work on non-UNIX platforms anyway, so I guess we can safely rely on X for this feature. The problem with using X is that the xterm where "gimp filename" is invoked is not

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Alex Harford
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: Is it possible to set up gimp such that typing 'gimp foo.xcf' on the commandline will just open foo.xcf in a currently running Gimp session? I've seen no documentation on this anyhere. I know this is a feature, but I would find it tremendously

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Michael Natterer
Alex Harford wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: Is it possible to set up gimp such that typing 'gimp foo.xcf' on the commandline will just open foo.xcf in a currently running Gimp session? I've seen no documentation on this anyhere. I know this is a feature, but I

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:44AM +0200, Michael Natterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking of a Gimp extension "gimp-server" or something which would Actually, this is called "Perl-Server" The pipe protocol could be as trivial as sending a plaintext string like I posted a oneliner

Re: single-instance gimp?

2000-03-29 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:19:44AM +0200, Michael Natterer wrote: Is it possible to set up gimp such that typing 'gimp foo.xcf' on the commandline will just open foo.xcf in a currently running Gimp session? I've seen no documentation on this anyhere. It's been able to do