Jairo Gonzalez wrote:
hi, I am not a developer yet, I am a student of informatics engineering, now, I have a idea to do shadows, using the border attribute of objects, in theory use a parallel degrade, started in the inside part of the border, and go to transparent at the end of border for shadow to out and reverse to shadow in. this is my idea (I don't speak English well), I will develop this option someday and bring it to you, now I bring you only a idea, if somebody developed this thing, tell me please, bye,
PD:this shadow is something like the shadows of gimp or fireworks, this kind of shadows give realism to a image in svg
SVG provides one way to do shadows right: using the Blur filter, it should look exactly the same as the shadows from Gimp, but for now Inkscape does not support any kind of filters.
In the meantime, the Blur Edge effect may be used as a workaround with passable results. Personally, I am not a big fan of implementing yet another workaround instead of the real deal (SVG filters), but I guess developing this as an effect plugin may be a good learning experience and an introduction to the Inkscape codebase (but IMO the effort would be better spent on other effects).