[Gimp-user] Bug in "arrow" plugin, possible bug with tear-off menus

[mark_at_yahoo <markrubn yahoo com>]

After 13+ years I let my subscription to gimp-user-list lapse due to 
excessive bounces (don't know why that was happening). I wasn't 
following it too much anymore. So of course a month later I have to do 
some Gimping, run into problems, and need to re-subscribe. Teaches me a 
lesson. ;)

The "arrow.scm" plugin at http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269 doesn't 
work under 2.8.16 -- setting the stroke width has no effect (and it 
doesn't use the global brush width, either). I hacked up a fix: It looks 
like gimp-context-set-brush-size is now required instead of or in 
addition to gimp-brush-set-radius. The script hasn't been touched since 
2009, and the last comment on the web page is 2013. What's the protocol 
for submitting a patch, or should I just keep a working copy for myself?

Problem #2: Tear-off menus (2.8.16 again) don't work, at least in my 
environment (Linux, X11, FVWM window manager). For example, 
right-click-and-hold in an image window, move down to "Colors >", move 
across to the submenu and down to "Invert" and release -- that works. 
But right-click-and-hold, move down to "Colors >", move across to the 
top "-----" line and release to create a tear-off menu. Then in that new 
"Colors" menu/window, click on "Invert" and nothing happens. (Actually, 
something does -- the message area in the lower right corner of the 
image window changes to say "Invert the colors", but the image doesn't 
change.) Same (no)thing with menu items that should pop up a dialog 
window, like "Levels...". But doing a deeper submenu from the tear-off 
menu, like "Map >" and then "Alien map..." from there does work.

I couldn't find this on Bugzilla. Can anyone else recreate it? I'm 
guessing it hasn't shown up because everyone's on Windows or some fancy 
Linux "desktop environment" and/or does the thing where you dock all the 
menus/windows/dialogs into the main image window (I don't know how to do 
that, nor why I'd want to).

Thanks for any suggestions. Also for keeping gimp-user-list alive. Were 
there lots of posts about changing "File -> Save As..." back to allow 
saving to JPEG/PNG/etc in addition to XCF instead of having to use "File 
-> Export" while I was gone? ;)

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MARK
markrubn yahoo com