On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:05 -0700, joel@...1709... wrote:
On a connected topic: would it be worth adding some kind of optional progress API to the python set? This way potentially long running scripts can give some feedback as to the percentage progress that has been made. I think this could be useful when doing live preview, or when doing the final render. Otherwise a script is rather like the Turing Machine; you never whether to give up waiting.
Well, yes. But, I'd like to find a way to implement this in Inkscape proper -- and I'm not sure how to do that with the scripting interface. I think it'd be a shame to require GTK bindings for every possible scripting language.
I agree on this from the usability perspective though. I think the "working" dialog that now comes up helps a ton. Especially with cancel.
--Ted