Dear developers,

I've just completed a section of work which you can find here:

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/15

I'd appreciate a good review of the code, especially for things like
memory leaks which I'm particularly weak on. A second point is the
removal of ifdefs, which I can't rally do with resource files, but I'm
hopping it won't matter (famous last words).

I wanted to bring up to the whole community my plans going forward. You
can see how I've moved the toolbar user interface XML from being
compiled in, to being a file in share/ui.

The reason for this, is I want to encourage experimentation on
inkscape's user interface, which we can't do at the moment without
recompiling the program.

With this change, it looks for the ui files, not just in
/usr/share/inkscape/ui, but also ~/.config/inkscape/ui so users can
generate a set of custom files with their own toolbar buttons ordered
the way that they want. It's not a lot of customisation, but it's
something to get going with.

The future vision is to start pulling some of the complex cruddy widget
creation code out and putting that into a meater ui file. I might start
with some dialogs like the document properties dialog. These are more
interesting, because they have things like signals and anyone editing
them needs to be very careful.

But if we have good code that has some good error messages and such, a
designer could open the ui file in glade and mess about with the widget
locations, paddings and a bunch of other visual pieces.

What are all your thoughts?

Best Regards, Martin Owens

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