Python-fu script not showing in Gimp menu

I’ve been at Gimp: python script not showing in menu and it didn’t help me. Here’s what I tried, step by step:

1. I’m running Gimp 2.8.16 on Mac OS X 10.9.5 from the command line with gimp as my .bashrc file includes

alias gimp='/Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/GIMP --verbose --console-messages '

I look at the terminal output, I see lots of messages but nothing pops out as a problem (do you want the dump here?). I see right at the start Enabling internal Python... so that should be good.

2. Filters > Python-Fu > Console brings up the console, with

GIMP 2.8.16 Python Console
Python 2.7.8 (default, Dec  5 2015, 09:38:54) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]
>>> 

—so, once again, python seems to be working.

3. Because of this tip here I tried running a Python script. I opened an image and ran Filters > Render > Clouds > Fog. Works like a charm – in the console I do get a few type conversion warnings when the window is fired up:

** (foggify.py:30312): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (foggify.py:30312): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GDriveStartFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
** (foggify.py:30312): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GSocketMsgFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

I searched my computer and foggify.py is actually in /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/foggify.py so this proves that Python is working, but not that it’s loading scripts. I’m a little confused as foggify.py only has 77 lines, not 30312.

4. GIMP > Preferences > Folders > Scripts shows GIMP should load the following directories for scripts:

/Users/julio/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/scripts
/Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/scripts

I’m not using /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/scripts but it has a lot of *.scm files (so, probably all in Scheme). I never added anything here myself.

5. I only have a single script: ls -l "/Users/julio/Library/Application Support/Gimp/2.8/scripts" yields

total 8
-rwxr-xr-x  1 julio  staff  654 25 Jun 16:25 minimal.py

(nothing else)

6. Here’s my minimal.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from gimpfu import *

def minimal():
    pass

register(
    "python_fu_minimal",                                    # plugin name
    "Minimal plug-in example",                              # blurb (short description)
    "Show the smallest possible Python plug-in example",    # help (long description)
    "Michael Schumacher",                                   # author
    "Michael Schumacher",                                   # copyright info
    "2007",                                                 # date
    "<Image>/Tools/Minimal",                                # menu position and label
    None,                                                   # image types accepted
    [],                                                     # input parameters
    [],                                                     # output (results)
    minimal                                                 # method to call
    )

main()

7. I run gimp with minimal.py already in the scripts directory indicated above, and I can’t see any “Minimal” item in the “Tools” menu.

I also tried the variation below, which didn’t work either:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from gimpfu import *

def minimal():
    pass

register(
    "python_fu_minimal",                                    # plugin name
    "Minimal plug-in example",                              # blurb (short description)
    "Show the smallest possible Python plug-in example",    # help (long description)
    "Michael Schumacher",                                   # author
    "Michael Schumacher",                                   # copyright info
    "2007",                                                 # date
    "Minimal",                                              # menu position and label
    None,                                                   # image types accepted
    [],                                                     # input parameters
    [],                                                     # output (results)
    minimal,                                                # method to call
    menu="<Image>/Tools"
    )

main()