gimp_env_init ()

void                gimp_env_init                       (gboolean plug_in);

You don't need to care about this function. It is being called for you automatically (by means of the MAIN() macro that every plug-in runs). Calling it again will cause a fatal error.

Since GIMP 2.4

gimp_directory ()

const gchar *       gimp_directory                      (void);

Returns the user-specific GIMP settings directory. If the environment variable GIMP2_DIRECTORY exists, it is used. If it is an absolute path, it is used as is. If it is a relative path, it is taken to be a subdirectory of the home directory. If it is a relative path, and no home directory can be determined, it is taken to be a subdirectory of gimp_data_directory().

The usual case is that no GIMP2_DIRECTORY environment variable exists, and then we use the GIMPDIR subdirectory of the home directory. If no home directory exists, we use a per-user subdirectory of gimp_data_directory(). In any case, we always return some non-empty string, whether it corresponds to an existing directory or not.

The returned string is owned by GIMP and must not be modified or freed. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames by GLib, which isn't necessarily UTF-8. (On Windows it always is UTF-8.)

gimp_data_directory ()

const gchar *       gimp_data_directory                 (void);

Returns the top directory for GIMP data. If the environment variable GIMP2_DATADIR exists, that is used. It should be an absolute pathname. Otherwise, on Unix the compile-time defined directory is used. On Windows, the installation directory as deduced from the executable's full filename is used.

The returned string is owned by GIMP and must not be modified or freed. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames by GLib, which isn't necessarily UTF-8. (On Windows it always is UTF-8.)

gimp_locale_directory ()

const gchar *       gimp_locale_directory               (void);

Returns the top directory for GIMP locale files. If the environment variable GIMP2_LOCALEDIR exists, that is used. It should be an absolute pathname. Otherwise, on Unix the compile-time defined directory is used. On Windows, the installation directory as deduced from the executable's full filename is used.

The returned string is owned by GIMP and must not be modified or freed. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames by the C library, which isn't necessarily UTF-8. (On Windows, unlike the other similar functions here, the return value from this function is in the system codepage, never in UTF-8. It can thus be passed directly to the bindtextdomain() function from libintl which does not handle UTF-8.)

gimp_plug_in_directory ()

const gchar *       gimp_plug_in_directory              (void);

Returns the top directory for GIMP plug_ins and modules. If the environment variable GIMP2_PLUGINDIR exists, that is used. It should be an absolute pathname. Otherwise, on Unix the compile-time defined directory is used. On Windows, the installation directory as deduced from the executable's full filename is used.

The returned string is owned by GIMP and must not be modified or freed. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames by GLib, which isn't necessarily UTF-8. (On Windows it always is UTF-8.)

gimp_sysconf_directory ()

const gchar *       gimp_sysconf_directory              (void);

Returns the top directory for GIMP config files. If the environment variable GIMP2_SYSCONFDIR exists, that is used. It should be an absolute pathname. Otherwise, on Unix the compile-time defined directory is used. On Windows, the installation directory as deduced from the executable's full filename is used.

The returned string is owned by GIMP and must not be modified or freed. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames by GLib, which isn't necessarily UTF-8. (On Windows it always is UTF-8.).

gimp_user_directory ()

const gchar *       gimp_user_directory                 (GimpUserDirectory type);

This procedure is deprecated! Use g_get_user_special_dir() instead.

Since GIMP 2.4

gimp_personal_rc_file ()

gchar *             gimp_personal_rc_file               (const gchar *basename);

Returns the name of a file in the user-specific GIMP settings directory.

The returned string is allocated dynamically and *SHOULD* be freed with g_free() after use. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames by GLib, which isn't necessarily UTF-8. (On Windows it always is UTF-8.)

gimp_gtkrc ()

const gchar *       gimp_gtkrc                          (void);

Returns the name of GIMP's application-specific gtkrc file.

The returned string is owned by GIMP and must not be modified or freed. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames by GLib, which isn't necessarily UTF-8. (On Windows it always is UTF-8.)

gimp_path_parse ()

GList *             gimp_path_parse                     (const gchar *path,
                                                         gint max_paths,
                                                         gboolean check,
                                                         GList **check_failed);

gimp_path_to_str ()

gchar *             gimp_path_to_str                    (GList *path);

gimp_path_free ()

void                gimp_path_free                      (GList *path);

This function frees the memory allocated for the list and the strings it contains.

gimp_path_get_user_writable_dir ()

gchar *             gimp_path_get_user_writable_dir     (GList *path);

Note that you have to g_free() the returned string.