I'd be interested in producing a custom extension for this problem. My way of approaching the problem might be slightly different from yours though (depending on whether inkscape stores the circle centrepoints and radii for a collection of merged circles, if not it might require that the circles are not merged before the extension is installed).
I'm a fairly seasoned programmer, but I'm very new to open source development, though I've been a user of open source software for years. I have made a couple of extensions for inkscape recently.
I don't think work for hire is against the philosophy of Free software or open source at all, if you have an unusual request that no-one else seems to need, then it's not going to write itself. Payment is still the number one way to get people to do things!
If you'd like to, we can continue to talk over private email.
Thanks, Craig
On 21 August 2010 08:52, Drechsel Wolf <edv-e@...2249...> wrote:
Hello everybody,
probabely there are lots of thoughts on this, so I'd be grateful for some hints:
I do have some very special wishes on inkscape developement:
# Improving the Mac OS X integration # implement a routine which counts the number of objects surrounded by another object: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/621627
Esp. the first has hardly moved forward during the last year, since I've started watching it. Is there a way of funding a special developement, which obviously does not attract a lot of attention?
Inkscape is free - alternatively I'd to pay 1000s of Euros for a "professional" product - with all its disacvantages. So I'd be happy to donate a number of Euros - and probabely some other people as well
- to pay somebody to get special work done, which would not be done
otherwise.
Is there a mechanism for that? - Could there be one? - Maybe some young person would be interested to earn a small sum, learn and get experienced - and get some work done within a professional environment? - Or is that idea completely against the spirit of open source?
Have a nice weekend!
Wolf
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