Dear David Lang,
On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 05:07 -0700, David Lang wrote:
what functionality would dbus add to inkscape? If it's so wonderful, does that mean that Inkscape on non-linux systems woudl be crippled? or is it that there would be two ways to do everything that can be done via dbus, one for systems where dbus exist and one for where it doesn't?
dbus has been working on windows for a while now. (needs more testing, but what doesn't), so Inkscape wouldn't have been crippled.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/#index6h1
Mostly it added the capacity in inkscape to interact with outside programs. We have our python API (stuff an svg through a pipe), our command line API (stuff an svg through file handles) and our human API (stuff an svg through eyeballs). But dbus is different in how one can interact with Inkscape scalpel like.
So it was a promise to the future of better things. Mostly better extensions, but I understand there are plans to improve the extensions API regardless.
That's in the past.
Martin,