Gimp is complicated you should ask on a gimp board. I’m certain it will do what you want but you do need to learn it. Sorry I can’t help can barely draw a straight line 
From a total non user but a programmer I’d say you want to create some brushes. But then what do I know LOL
There are several gimp tutorials I have noticed in Goggling maybe they may give a clue
On Mon 16 Feb 2015 11:36:02 PM CST, fohat wrote:
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Too true.
I hate loading my screen and hard drive up with useless cr@p (a big part
of the reason that I want to get away from Microsoft) but now I have
installed several Gimp add-ons and plug-ins that are either
non-functional or useless or both, and I am not experienced enough to
know how to purge them properly. I had high hopes for “Draw Arrow” but
it only does a fraction of it and simply will not work anyway (unless
there is some trick that I have not yet discovered).
For whatever reasons, I am beginning to get the feeling that the Gimp
developers, as a group, are operating at a higher “professional” (air
quotes, but not in a mean-spirited way) level and looking down their
noses at what I want to do as supremely unsophisticated.
Is there some sort of “clip art” or “cartooning” plug-in that I might
employ to create these basic objects?
As crude and awkward as it is overall, Microsoft Paint nailed this
particular component of it elegantly, and nobody else has seemed to be
able to do it. I am not alone in this opinion.
Hi
The arrow.scm script works fine in 2.8?
From here based on http://registry.gimp.org/node/28566
Put the arrow.scm script in ~/.gimp-2.8/scripts/ and restart gimp;
Select color, select path tool, click on start and finish points,
right-click Tools->arrow configure as required, press ok, done…
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Hmmm.
Does not work as easily as it once did.
So, ran a couple tests, do it this way:
Click and drag the symbol to KWrite.
Select the symbol in KWrite & copy from there (Ctrl-C will do it just fine).
Go to GIMP, select the Text tool, set to a nice large font (say, 200) and you can choose a colour there, as well. Do this before pasting, then click on the GIMP photo window, and paste (Ctrl-V works just fine).
Rotate, Scale, Resize, or ??? to your heart’s content.
If you do some hunting, you should find lots of clip-art. Clip-art will add easily into GIMP, unlike that failure of trying to paste a text symbol character directly.
There also are extensions that work just fine in GIMP.
If you are having problems with specific extensions, you need to tell which extension you are trying, and give a link to the extension, then tell us the exact error you get when you try to use it.
Just saying you “tried” unnamed extensions and they did not work does not give us any way to help you.
You also need to learn to “Think outside the box.”
The internet is littered with millions of great clip-art graphics. All you need to do is find some you like, say on a website, download the graphics (or, even, screenshoot them, but please try to avoid copyrighted material), save them in files. If you want to collect them all in one file for easy selection to import into GIMP, I suggest you either open a file in OpenOffice Draw (or LibreOffice Draw) and import them into there, or you could create a GIMP file and import them all in there and arrange them on multiple layers all in one file.
After that, you simply choose one, use a selection tool to select it, copy it, then paste it into your project.
If you do that, you will have a collection of absolutely awesome graphics, dingbats, symbols, and so on for your projects.
Another saying:
“Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”
and
“You cannot do anything well if you are not willing work at it.”
BTW:
Since those last couple of posts, I remembered how I used to do it in GIMP from the character selector widget:
When you click on the text editor tool, in the “Tool Options” panel, check the box that says “Use editor”.
Click on your page, and an editor window will open.
Choose your colour and font size, then simply drag the symbol straight from the character selector widget to that editor window.
It took me all of 5 minutes to:
Take this screenshot of a section of my main desktop, paste it in GIMP, then use the method in my latest post to slap this together:
I genuinely appreciate the time and effort that you have taken to help me with this.
So much of this is like trying to get a drink of water from a fire hose!
There is no doubt that millions of people want to have an awesome collection of dingbats, but for this portion of the endeavor, I would like to have scalable, color-able open arrows pointing in each of 4 directions (preferably “clean” without shadows or other frou-frou) and an oval and perhaps a rectangle to enclose the area that I want to notate. And nothing else.
I’m sorry, when I select “Tools” there is “Text” but no “Tool Options”
Nowhere in there do I find anything that looks like “Use Editor”
I can drag a dingbat into the box that accepts letters from the keyboard, but they do not “take” that is they evaporate as soon as I release the mouse button.
When you say drag the symbol from the character selector to the editor window, are you still going through the intermediary step of processing it through Kwrite?
Please forgive my questions, but either I am too stupid to understand your instructions or these things are not working in Gimp 2.8.14.
Thank you for your continuing help!
I have found the Gimp “Toolbox” toolbar and it looks very helpful. I tried to bring it out and dock it over near the top left, but as soon as I select something from it, it goes away and I have to bring it out again.
But I still cannot find “Toolbox Options” or “Text Editor” as shown in your post. I would have expected them to be something like “toolbars” that I could select in “View” but obviously not.