CHAPTER 12 ADDITIONAL (Free web design) TOPICS 471 You can
CHAPTER 12 ADDITIONAL TOPICS 471 You can include multiple folders by using a colon between the names. ${gimp_dir}refers to your personal gimprc directory, and ${gimp_data_dir} to the GIMP system directory where these plug-ins are stored. Changing Preview Sizes with gtkrc You may remember from installing GIMP that it s built upon a user interface library called GTK, the Gimp ToolKit. GTK s numerous configuration options can be set globally, but you can also set options for specific applications that take precedence over the global settings. GIMP s GTK settings reside in a file called gtkrc in your GIMP profile folder. Most of the time, this file will be updated automatically to reflect changes you make in your GIMP user interface. But there are a few cases where it s helpful to view the file. The most important use of gtkrc is to change the preview size in plug-in dialogs. You may have puzzled over the two Preview Size options in the Interfaces category of Preferences. When you change the size, the previews in plug-in windows don t change. Why not? The two options in Preferences affect different previews. Default layer & channel preview size controls the size of the preview thumbnails shown in each line of the Layers dialog. But they re tricky to use: GIMP doesn t actually honor them unless you close the tab, bring up the dialog again, and then re-dock it. It s much faster to ignore the preferences and change the preview sizes from the dockable s menu. (You can also change them by editing sessionrc, as you ll see shortly.) Navigation preview size controls the size of the window that pops up when you click on the navigation panner button at the bottom-right of an image window. So what about those plug-in previews? The normal preview size is pretty small and it s sometimes hard to see much (Figure 12-6). Can you make it bigger? Figure 12-6. GIMP s default preview size is a bit small.
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