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: How to open a file the fast way in Gimp? The classical way to open a file is not followed in Gimp. There is no browse button, nor there is a textbox where one can paste the path to the

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The classical way to open a file is not followed in Gimp. There is no browse button, nor there is a textbox where one can paste the path to the file. I do not edit images everyday and I always have to loose half an hour to be able to open a simple file. So here are my questions:


How to open a file in Gimp the fast way (something akin to pasting the pathway on a textbox).
Is there a reason for the current state of affairs, or is it just the decision of some chief developer?

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@BetL875

This may be a restriction from our OS or our file browser integration with Gimp. With the Gtk-toolkit on a Linux (here Ubuntu) OS and in Windows we have several choices to quickly open images with Gimp 2.8.:

From the File browser:


Double click on an image to open with Gimp after we made it our default image editor.
Right click context menu Open with... Gimp on our file browser.
Drag & Drop on the Gimp window will load this image:




From Gimp


File > Open... will open the Gtk file selector where we have the choice to browse or to enter a path:


On File > Open Location... Gimp will open a textbox to enter a path:


File > Open Recent will give us a dropdown menu of recently used files.

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