gimp troublees

[<edwalter@iname.com>]

Hi.  I am having a little trouble with gimp.  I have installed gimp
0.54.1-5 and gimp-plugins 1.0-1.  My problem is that I can't figure
out how to access the menus/pluging that are defined in my config
files.  I have copied /etc/gimp/gimprc to ~/.gimprc and have verified
that it and /etc/gimp/add-ons.rc and /etc/gimp/plug-ins.rc *are*
getting parsed.  However, I see no menus or menu options to access
these plugins.  For example, the blur plugin is supposed to be under a
Blur/Blur menu with a Alt+B hotkey.  The ALt+B hotkey works fine, but
I can find no other way to access the blur plugin.

I am using all the default config files from gimp and gimp-plugins.  I
must be makeing some simple mistake since many people love this
program.  I'd love to be able to love it too.

Any help would be appreciated,
Erv

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