Getting rid of Wilber

[Siard]

There is one annoying thing about Gimp. As long as there's no picture
open, there's a nasty creature constantly peeping at me over the edge
of the window.
It appears to be Wilber, the Gimp mascot. There is a small one in the
toolbox, but that one can be removed by setting 'toolbox-wilber' to
'no' in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc or ~/.gimp-2.8/gimprc.

But how to get rid of the big one? The developers consider the mascot
'important' and offer no option to remove it.

Now there seem to exist themes for Gimp that offer the option to remove
the logo. For example, this one: www.gnome-look.org/p/1106530/
"Turn off Wilber Logo - small and big logo turned off by default"
But I can't find a download link??

Some people also seem to manage to make the background color equal to
the logo, so you don't see it any more. But I haven't found a theme
that offers this possibility.
By default, there are four themes in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes.
They have a gtkrc file in which the background color ("clr9") can be
changed. But then, the color of the logo changes with it, so it is
still visible.

Has anyone found a theme or any other option to remove that logo?

[Brad Rogers]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:58:26 +0200
Siard <shie...@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:

Hello Siard,

>'no' in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc or ~/.gimp-2.8/gimprc.

Of no help to you, but from 2.10, the user prefs file is at
~/.config/GIMP/2.10/gimprc

We still don't appear to be able to remove Wilber from the main window,
however.

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[Siard]

Brad Rogers wrote:
> from 2.10, the user prefs file is at ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/gimprc

That's good to know. I had ~/.gimp-2.8 in buster (Gimp 2.10) and
stretch (Gimp 2.8) linked to the same configuration files, which is
why this link still existed in buster.

> We still don't appear to be able to remove Wilber from the main
> window, however.

For the time being, I have Gimp started up like this:
$ gimp /path/to/pixel.xcf
where pixel.xcf is a 1x1 pixel image. Or it could be a bigger image
with a gray area. Wilber is hidden then, that is, as long as you do
not close that image.

[James H. H. Lampert]

Hmm. I'm all for customizing UIs (my preferred Open Office icon is a
manual typewriter, my preferred Firefox icon is one I found with the
eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth Imploder logo, and my preferred
Thunderbird icon has the eponymous bird carrying a bottle of T-Bird),
but what have you got against Wilber?

--
JHHL

[Siard]

James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> Hmm. I'm all for customizing UIs (....), but what have you got
> against Wilber?

Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but that creepy critter constantly peeping
at me grates on my nerves.

[Dominik George]

> Maybe I'm overly sensitive, but that creepy critter constantly peeping
> at me grates on my nerves.

Good thing it's not a boggart[0]!

-nik

[0] https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/boggart

[David Niklas]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:30:19 -0700
"James H. H. Lampert" <jam...@touchtonecorp.com> wrote:
> Hmm. I'm all for customizing UIs (my preferred Open Office icon is a
> manual typewriter, my preferred Firefox icon is one I found with the
> eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth Imploder logo, and my preferred
> Thunderbird icon has the eponymous bird carrying a bottle of T-Bird),

> but what have you got against Wilber?
>

> --
> JHHL


Quick, where can I find the "eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth
Imploder logo"?

Thanks!

[Siard]

David Niklas:
> James H. H. Lampert:

> > Hmm. I'm all for customizing UIs (my preferred Open Office icon is a
> > manual typewriter, my preferred Firefox icon is one I found with the
> > eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth Imploder logo, and my preferred
> > Thunderbird icon has the eponymous bird carrying a bottle of T-Bird),
> > but what have you got against Wilber?
>

> Quick, where can I find the "eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth
> Imploder logo"?
>
> Thanks!

I guess it's this one: https://postimg.cc/image/n8txtg6zh/

Google's image search and Startpage's image search both point to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockFhUf2l7c . It seems to have disappeared there,
but Startpage still has it in its archives.

[James H. H. Lampert]

On 9/3/18, 5:22 PM, David Niklas wrote:
> Quick, where can I find the "eponymous fox chewing on a Microsloth
> Imploder logo"?

You ought to know Murphy's Law of the Internet by now: nothing posted to
the Internet ever goes away . . . . unless you're looking for it.

--
JHHL

[Gene Heskett]

Man! I have got to add that one to my list! ;-)
>
> --
> JHHL



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[John Hasler]

James H. H. Lampert writes:
> You ought to know Murphy's Law of the Internet by now: nothing posted
> to the Internet ever goes away . . . . unless you're looking for it.

Unless you wish it was gone. In that case Google will return 180,000
hits.
--
John Hasler
jha...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 September 2018 13:56:22 John Hasler wrote:

> James H. H. Lampert writes:
> > You ought to know Murphy's Law of the Internet by now: nothing
> > posted to the Internet ever goes away . . . . unless you're looking
> > for it.
>
> Unless you wish it was gone. In that case Google will return 180,000
> hits.

It figures. Thanks for the belly laugh, John.

[Siard]

10 days ago, Brad Rogers wrote:
> We still don't appear to be able to remove Wilber from the main window,
> however.

Meanwhile, I've made considerable progress though. In Gimp 2.10 in buster
there are four styles in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes: Dark, Gray, Light,
System. In Light/gtkrc you'll find this code:

style "kde_hack_2"
{
bg[NORMAL] = "#DDDDDD" #Sets canvas BG
}

Changing DDDDDD to 3C3C3C makes the background color equal to the color of

the logo, so you don't see it any more.

The same goes for Gray/gtkrc, where you can change 777777 into 000000.
I did not find such options for the 'Dark' and the 'System' theme though.

However, I found another great solution that works for both Gimp 2.8 in
stretch and 2.10 in buster. It's the themes of the Gimp Theme Project:
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1106530/
There are 6 themes, ranging from dark to light, inspired by the Adobe CS
Suite. Taken from the description: "Turn off Wilber Logo - small and big
logo turned off by default".

The download button does not seem to work nowadays, but in the comment
that starts with 'I think I've tracked it down' a download link is
mentioned, so put wget in front of it:

$ wget https://web.archive.org/web/20160213025658/http://rgb4u.com/share/gimp-theme-project.zip

Note, however, that gimp-theme-project.zip is a .tar.gz file, not a .zip
file. So, rename .zip to .tar.gz and unpack:

$ tar xfz gimp-theme-project.tar.gz

In the 01_Themes folder you'll find 12 themes, that is, 6 different shades
of gray, each one of them with or without some blue added.
The creator has Gimp 2.8 for Windows in mind, so the themes folder
mentioned here is C:\Users\your-user-name\.gimp-2.8\themes\ .
For Linux, this easily translates into /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes,
or ~/.gimp-2.8/themes in stretch, or ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes in buster.

In Gimp, in Edit > Preferences > Interface > Theme, you can set the new
theme.
I find it's a great professional look. And most important of all, that
annoying creature has finally gone. From several places in the internet
I find that I am not the only one that would like to get rid of it.