It's alive! I got the app icon to be droppable after it's open using gimp-remote. The wait function was giving me headaches. I didn't realize that it returns whenever any child process terminates, even when the terminating child process started long after the initial child process it originally started waiting on. As soon as gimp-remote would terminate, the parent gimp.app process would exit thinking gimp was done executing. When I switched to using waitpid, it worked great. :) Now I'm going to add the open command to the file menu, and also try to get gimp-print working.
l8r Aaron
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