Jon Phillips wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:51 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
Well, this isn't really the way that effects are meant to be used. You're asking for a pallet, which honestly isn't available. In order to do multithreaded, we can't assume that anyone has a golden version of the document anymore. Palettes are on the roadmap, but until the DOM is available, I'm afraid that they are impractical. We could make the GUI refresh, but would have to force you to be unable to edit the document (which makes the GUI refreshing not that useful).
What is the best way to solve this then Ted? Wait? Or how can Greg push this through for his project?
Well, I would have to say that this isn't going to happen in the short term. Bob is working on getting the DOM implemented, but it is a huge task. If Greg would like to help with that he'd need to talk to Bob about it. It is a drastically different task than working on OCAL stuff though.
I've mentioned it to Greg, and I still believe, that perhaps his application would work better separately from Inkscape instead of being an extension. Such that you could run them side by side, and then drag and drop files into Inkscape. This would also allow it to be used with other applications in a similar way. I think that is probably a stronger paradigm for using it.
I think also, from the marketing perspective, making it "OCAL Browser" is better than "The Inkscape Extension for OCAL". This way it can be made to work with applications like Illustrator and promote OCAL.
--Ted