On 9/2/07, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
This would require a little bit of code because the only automatically generated menu (for effects) is the one under the Effects tab. I'd be interested in what others though, is this something we should think about?
Actually this is already done for Help menu commands:
In an extension's INX file, you can specify <effects-menu hidden="yes"/> to hide that extension from the Effects menu. However, such a "hidden" extension can still be assigned a keyboard shortcut (by using its id as an "action" in your ~/.inkscape/keys/default.xml).
The initial reason for collecting all extensions in one menu was because they were all equally clumsy and foreign, much unlike regular commands. Now that this is less and less the case, we can indeed think about sorting them out into different menus and removing the Effects menu, much as we removed the Dialogs menu several versions back. Except that we still need a place for the "Run last effect" command somewhere.
Anyway, even if we don't eliminate the menu, I (again) propose to rename it to Extensions. The word "effects" is terribly confusing now that we have SVG filter effects and Live Path effects!