On Donnerstag 07 Januar 2010, Hans Meine wrote:
First, my impression was that the extension is slow (I think there's a lot of potential for improvements, since it looks like a straightforward but not very efficient python implementation) and not very well integrated into the GUI, [...]
I forgot to say that this extension does not seem to perform a very special task (which would justify its extension status), but could be useful for many purposes. Thus, I assume there are plans to have this in the core, similar to the text-along-path functionality, with full live preview and update when modifying the path etc.? (As soon as someone gets the job done..)
Or would "path effects" help, which looked quite promising, but I could not find out how to use them (e.g. specify the pattern)? In that case, I am sorry if I overlooked some documentation.
Otherwise, would it be a good intermediate step to improve the python extension before introducing it as a core feature? The latter would certainly not be a job for me, while I could contribute to the former, as time permits.