On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 20:08 -0500, bulia byak wrote:
On 1/31/08, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
I would prefer to see the current effects that we have extended so that they are all "Live". I'm not sure if you're familiar with Adobe Illustrator but they have a "Flatten" type command with effects. What this means is that you keep editing of your original objects even as you change it. So you could take a path, jitter the nodes, then brighten the color, but still edit it in it's original form.
For jittering, that's what LPEs already do.
Personally, I would like to preserve the current Python extension effects system as is, with some improvements but without any closer integration. It's an advantage to be able to very qiuckly write some simple script and then be able to run it both from Inkscape as well as standalone.
On the other hand, of course a plugin system that would extend current LPEs and make them more powerful and more pluggable is a great idea too, for more complex things. But that would be the next tier and we shouldn't force everyone to use it when something much simpler would suffice.
I think that we can preserve both with a little extra code. I'd like to see all effects become live on canvas. I think that makes more sense than extending LPE to have a separate plugin mode.
--Ted