we had a google SOC project last year that worked on pretty much exatcly this functionality, except it was done as an external utility that linked in through the extensions code.
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ocalhelper/
--- Michael Moore <stuporglue@...400...> wrote:
While neat, an "Import Clipart" would be a duplication of a current functionality, that is, drag and drop from a nautilus/konqueror
window that
is connected to the clipart internet resource.
That is partially true, there are definately currently ways to import clipart that work. The new functionality would be in ease of use, and integration with OCAL.
Ease of use:
If you're working with Inkscape full screen, you have to resize and move windows to drag and drop import clipart. Drag and drop import doesn't seem to work with OSX since Inkscape is running in X11 and Finder is an native program.
To non-technical Windows users, I imagine it's slightly confusing to import OCAL work since you have to decide which file based on the PNG, then import the SVG of the same name -- I don't think that this is very user friendly.
Integration with OCAL:
Instead of thinking of the OCAL library as a bunch of nested folders of SVGs mixed with PNGs and text files, the user can just think of it as "Import Clipart --> Browse categories". Currently when using drag-and-drop importing, I have to double check that I'm not importing the PNG since I get both thumbnails (in Nautilus).
So, yes, there is some duplication, but I think there may also be some real gains in functionality and ease of use as well.
Michael
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