On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jakub Steiner wrote:
Until yesterday I haven't had a chance to play with what you call effects. Because I believe this is a misleading terminology I want to propose an alternative:
Well, we've debated these names several times before... my only opinion on it is that I'm not changing the name in the codebase again -- I think we're already using two naming conventions in several places and I don't want to add another. I don't care as much about the GUI strings. Probably before we have this discussion this document should be read by everyone:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape/doc/extension_system...
Specifically "Terminology" and "Overview"
I'd also recommend looking at the effects "Grid" and "Blur Edge" which don't use an script to execute -- they are built into the codebase and written in C++.
--Ted