2015-04-10 13:55 GMT+02:00 Mark Schafer <mschafer@...2596...>:
I'd just like to make one request. The Extension system (and Python and Dbus) capability is slated for 1.4. I firmly believe that a lot of people (myself included) could meaningfully contribute to Inkscape in the form of extensions which do not require a deep C knowledge of the Inkscape internals.
I'd like to request moving this up the timescale if at all possible. Cheers...
The old "filter-like" extension system is already there and it won't go away.
I think DBus based extensions may not be the best idea at this time, since they require some measure of API stability, and our current API is really deficient in a few places. That should be the main priority.
Another problem is that it wouldn't be possible to implement things such as new tools as DBus extensions. Every exchange of data would be a DBus call, and for an interactive tool the overhead would be too large.
Regards, Krzysztof