8 Jan
                
                    2010
                
            
            
                8 Jan
                
                '10
                
            
            
            
        
    
                7:19 p.m.
            
        However, for my use case, it also suffers from another problem I discussed before for the extension, namely that it produces a single path. I need separate objects, to be able to set different fill styles.
That is the point of path effects. It keeps a path as a path.
If you want to create a number of different paths, use the pattern along path extension then perform a Path->Break Apart to separate the individual paths so they can be coloured individually.
-Rob A>