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GIMP 2.8.6 slow startup

Submitted by AE-35 on June 29, 2013 - 5:42pm

I did a clean install of 2.8.6, when starting this hangs for 20 seconds during startup, loading fonts, if I do a clean install of 2.8.2 this is not happening. Everytime I start 2.8.6 it scans all fonts and all plugins as if it was started for the first time, this is also not happening with 2.8.2.
I noticed that the defaultdata\.gimp contains almost no folders in 2.8.6, if I check this with 2.8.2 there are a lot of folders like brushes, gradients and so on.

Anyone else having this issue?

GIMP: Avast reports "Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]" in gspawn-win32-helper.exe, blocks download

Submitted by Moonbase on June 25, 2013 - 4:55am

Trying to upgrade to GIMPPortable_2.8.6.paf.exe via the inbuilt updater fails due to AVAST! Antivirus' Web Protection blocking

http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/portableapps/GIMP%20Portable/Ad...|>$OUTDIR\gimp\bin\gspawn-win32-helper.exe

and

GIMP: Virus detections from AVG, TrendMicro and VBA32

Submitted by maaylix on April 14, 2013 - 8:42am

Hey there,

Recently my AVG scanner claimed that a few files from gimp portable (version 2.8.4) where malware.

The claimed infections are:

gimp.pyd.debug
gimpcolour.pyd.debug
gimpthumb.pyd.debug
_gimpenums.pyd.debug
_gimpui.pyd.debug

These files can be found in:
App/gimp/lib/gimp/2.0/python/

I scanned these files in virustotal.com and two more vendors claimed they are malware (VBA32 and Trend Micro).

Zero Gimp - black theme for Gimp

Submitted by ZeroX4 on February 22, 2013 - 6:28am

im ussing black windows theme for windows so i wanted to have black theme for gimp and no such thing existed so i just
made modification of gimp theme green heart which is modification of blue heart theme for gimp

place extracted FOLDER to \GIMP Portable\App\gimp\share\gimp\2.0\themes
than just start Gimp hit edit>preferences>themes and choose Zero Gimp

NOTE !!!
after changing theme restart Gimp or the font will be black (after restart it will be white and visible)

here is download link
http://www.mediafire.com/?668op462b0t0g

DOWNLOAD ZERO GIMP NOT GIMP PORATBLE !!!!

[Fixed] Problem with PortableApps.com Launcher -- Another instance of GIMP is starting...

Submitted by ag0815 on February 12, 2013 - 7:44am

Hi

When I try to start GIMP Portable (v2.8.2 Rev_2) on my Win7 (64bit) PC, I get an error message from PortableApps.com Launcher: "Another instance of GIMP Portable is starting. Please wait for it to start before launching it again." After hitting OK the program does not start. Obviously I checked whether another instance is really running, or I even tried it straight after boot-up, but without success.

Other symptoms:
- The same happens for uTorrent and JDownloader Portable, but not for others (e.g. VLC Player Protable is starting OK)

GIMP Extension Pack

Submitted by BLD on February 1, 2013 - 11:13pm

HI Folks;

I notice that the GIMP site now offers a downloadable extension pack for GIMP 2.8 (windows) loaded with some very useable plug-ins.

I tried to install it to GIMP Portable with no luck. Tried to trick the installer by loading GIMP on my PC then switching it out with GIMP Portable. It installed, but would not show up when I put GIMP Portable back on my memory stick.

Has anyone the knowhow or inclination to convert the plug-ins in the Windows extension pack so they will run with GIMP Portable?

Cheers

GIMP: Error when logging in "Unable to load ZENautil.dll"

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Submitted by tridral on November 20, 2012 - 8:28am

I've had several occurrences of the same problem logging into my work PC

Error when logging in "Unable to load ZENautil.dll"

Only re-imaging the PC seemed to fix the problem and then it would recur.

We eventually traced it to GIMP Portable. There is an article here:

http://www.wik12tech.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=19&...

GIMP: Recently saved files are in the recent docs list even if disabled in settings

Submitted by AE-35 on November 15, 2012 - 4:23pm

I configured Gimp to not keep a recent file list but still recent files show up.
It seems like only saved files are in the recent files list.
Is this an issue with Gimp or is this an issue with the portable version of Gimp?

Thanks,

Jasper

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