I'm working as a contractor for the University of the Arts, London. Currently, we're developing a Semantic Desktop to capture data about the creative process which is currently based on Linux, Inkscape and Zeitgeist [0].

In order to realize pushing events from Inkscape into Zeitgeist, we have currently created a fork and implemented the functionality as an internal plugin. This works well, but requires us to maintain a patched version of Inkscape. When i was starting with the implementation I stumbled across a site mentioned in your Wiki [1], which says:

"Plug-in" - a loadable module with a message handler routine that receives messages and that operates on the Inkscape API functions directly. 

When I was digging in the source code I found some commented-out parts of the software [2] which contained code for those plugins, which seem to be native C++ plugins. It seems to me, that support for native plugins was prepared but never fully implemented.

As we'd like to contribute something to your project we'd be looking into developing the missing plugin support. So we're asking: Would you be accepting patches for the C++ plugin support? And may be you know why it was never implemented? Are there any fundamental issues with this?

With best regards,

Sebastian Faubel

[0] http://bitbucket.org/semiodesk/artivity 

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/doc/extension_system.txt

[2] File in repo: src/extension/system.cpp:468