Gimp options on Unity panel greyed out unless sudo

I'm using Gimp2.8-2.9 on 13.10 and all of the drop-down options to modify a photo from the unity panel menu are greyed out unless gimp is run as sudo. I can only assume this is a permission issue. Gimp shouldn't have to be run with sudo.

UPDATE

Right-clicking on the photo has the same options available I just cannot use the drop-down menu items from the unity panel for some reason.

mchid@mchid:~$ ls -l .gimp-2.8 total 824 drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 brushes -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 739 May 23 08:29 colorrc -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 1863 May 23 08:29 controllerrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 curves -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 57 May 23 08:29 dockrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 dynamics drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 environ drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 fonts drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 fractalexplorer drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gfig drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gflare drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gimpressionist drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 gradients -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 430 May 23 08:28 gtkrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 interpreters -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 2597 May 23 08:28 lastval_descriptions.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 levels -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 99367 May 23 08:29 menurc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 modules drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 palettes -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 102 May 23 08:29 parasiterc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 patterns -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 541388 May 23 08:28 pluginrc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 plug-ins drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 scripts -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 2493 May 23 08:29 sessionrc -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 53885 May 23 08:29 tags.xml -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 4817 May 23 08:29 templaterc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 templates -rw-r--r-- 1 mchid mchid 306 May 23 08:28 themerc drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 themes drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 tool-options drwxr-xr-x 2 mchid mchid 4096 May 23 08:28 tool-presets -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 3996 May 23 08:29 toolrc -rw------- 1 mchid mchid 1178 May 23 08:29 unitrc

Thank you in advance.

I have no idea why but all of the options from the unity panel menu are greyed (unless sudo) out but the same options are available by right-clicking on the image.