On 9/4/06, Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote:
"Lorem ipsum" is a clever name but almost too clever. (Excellent idea though and it is alwasy great to see people creating more effects and extensions already.) Although "Lorem ipsum" it is an expression probably well known to typesetters it is not exactly self explanitory for the average beginner.
Perhaps, but would a beginner need it at all? Usually designers use it for mock-ups to show to clients.
I changed its name to "Lorem ipsum", moved it to the Render submenu
Why Render? It is creating a block of real text as opposed to rendering a path or other shape isn't it?
Render here has a general meaning of "create", as in, create some object which didn't exist before. Perhaps the submenu should be renamed to just "Create".
Maybe a submenu "Effects, Text" or something general like that?
Yes, when we have more extensions for text, we can add a new submenu for them.
One of the menu feature requests listed in the tracker was "Ungroup All" something which could presumably be quite easily written as an extension
No, implementing this correctly requires quite a lot of transform math, and this is something only Inkscape core can do effectively.