Actually it might make sense to make it a preference. Something like specifying what happens to the other layers when one is selected exclusively.
That's a good idea in and of it's self, make the two things distinct functions and together they make a powerful control.
So one idea is to have a slider bar to change which layer is selected.
And the second idea is to be able to set some how what happens to other layers and the current layer such that it should be possible to make the current layer visible, the next and previous layers semi transparent and all other layers invisible. this would also be very cool for doing tracing and a bunch of other things.
I wrote the barcode plugin, I can't Imagen it'd be too much more difficult.
Ah, I didn't realize that was you. Yes, this one should be much easier :)
Yes the barcode wasn't that hard to be honest I translated my perl barcode stuff to python.
Are you planning on using the SVG animation elements or Javascript?
Also, from the SVG perspective there is a good group of people who talk about SVG related issues over here:
I'm planning on creating a python based plugin which will look at each of the objects in each root layer and allow you to combine them into a complete animation using svg animation (not javascript) primary support is just the path and transofrm animations and maybe style. I'll make it so you should be able to select the timing between each frame ect.
I'm posting this to the inkscape devel list for you guys to shoot down as many as the silly ideas as possible so we can come up with some nice improvements.
Best Regards, Martin Owens