Re: [Inkscape-user] organizing external extensions - need a little help

8 Aug 2018

      Oh, too bad then.   I was only thinking about uploading links.  I think I would 
have to contact each author to get permission to upload the extension packages 
to the gallery, wouldn't I?  And some of them would probably need a license 
changed. No, that's more than I could handle alone.
I guess Mark Shafer is working on contacting the authors, slowly but surely.  If 
he wanted to work together on it, I'd be up for helping, though.
I guess I'll just list them on Inkscape Community, at least for now.  If I find 
some spare time I might think about uploading links to the gallery.  I'll put it 
on my to-do list -- eventually it will get to the top!
Thanks,
brynn
-----Original Message----- 
From: doctormo@...155...
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2018 5:16 AM
To: brynn ; Inkscape User Community
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] organizing external extensions - need a little help
Hi Brynn,
It depends if what you have is links to extensions, or if you intend to
upload the actual extension packages themselves.
If you have files, the process of getting them all uploaded is simpler
as you can drag+drop the files onto the blue "Submit Resource" button
on the website, it's designed to be able to do multiple uploads for
things like photos from an event. They won't be published, but if you
upload them to a gallery (drop them onto the submit button inside one
of your own gallery pages, instead of the generic listing page.
https://inkscape.org/en/~brynn/resources/
As you edit them, you should be able to save and automatically go to
the next one, allowing you to move through the items one by one
quickly.
There's no similar thing for links though. ☹
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 01:27 -0600, brynn wrote:
...
Thanks for your comments, Martin, and sorry for my delay in
responding.
Well I was assuming the Inkscape website would not be interested in
this,
because it's almost all 3rd party links.  But I never thought of
putting them in
the gallery.
If there were some way to upload these 300 or so extensions to the
gallery, in
one or more multiple uploads, or ideally, all at once, I wouldn't
mind going
through them and adding the tags and descriptions, one by one.  But
uploading
one by one - omg
Would it be possible to send them to you, and you could upload via
FTP or some
similar means, all at once?  Maybe I could organize them in some way,
to make
that work better?  Then I could go through and add the tags and
description.
Oohh....I should probably start learning how to write scripts myself,
since I
seem to have a pretty good understanding of how they work.  But
wouldn't it be
possible to write some kind of script, to pick out the info from a
document....or maybe I could make the info into a database or
something?  I
mean, where the script would upload them AND add the tags and
description?  Or
would that be a really major effort?
Regarding using some other type of document, I wasn't expecting it
would be
passed around to a lot of people.  I was thinking maybe one or 2
people might be
interested enough, and that would be about all that's needed.
Plus, the document itself, as I said, is kind of irrelevant.  Whether
I put the
info on the Inkscape website or mine, or both, the document is just
to organize
the info - the working file.  It won't be used on either website.
Thanks again,
brynn
-----Original Message----- 
From: doctormo@...155...
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 2:27 PM
To: Inkscape User Community
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] organizing external extensions - need a
little help
Hi Brynn,
This is great work, thanks for taking this on.
You might like to use google docs to draft the document with multiple
collaborators instead of passing around and odt file. It should make
things easier.
Ultimately. I'd like to see this information eventually makes it's
way
to the Inkscape website itself under the extensions gallery. Links
can
be posted and authors other than the uploader can be specified. Tags
then used to categorise them.
But of course, this can wait until your good work of documenting them
can be completed.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 22:40 -0600, brynn wrote:
...
Hi Friends,
        I'm working on a project to list all the external
extensions,
on the
same page where I have all the best tutorials listed
(https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php)
    I already have a list made -- approx 300 of them.  And I've

made an
attempt at organizing them.  I'm using the current Extensions menu
as
a starting
place for categories.  That seems like the most logical way in
which
users might
search for them (or expect to find them).
    The Render and Export categories have so many that I've

made
sub-categories.  Plus I made a new one called Animation, which
holds
both
animation and presentation type of extensions.
    But I'm stuck with approx 45 of them which I'm not sure

where
they would
belong.  Plus, I might not have gotten the ones I did organize in
the
proper
place.  Often extensions might fit in more than one category, but
usually one is
better than the other.
    I wonder if anyone might have some time, to help me out

with
this?  I've
uploaded an ODT file as an attachment in this forum topic (which
I've
also
requested any forum members who might have time to help).
https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1261.0
    For clarity, these are specifically what I need help with:

-- At the bottom (last 3 pages) is a category called
"Unsure".  Those
are the
ones I need the most help with.  Ideally I'd like all of them
categorized....except that there are several extensions I found
which
don't have
descriptions, and their titles aren't very helpful with knowing
what
they do
either.  So there could realistically be a few left over which
can't
fit into a
category.
-- There are subcategories in Render and Export called "Other"
(among
several
other subcats).  There should be several extensions from "Other"
which can fit
into other subcategories.
-- Generally if you notice any that I put in the wrong place,
please
move them
to the correct place.
    For anyone who can help, please just edit that file, and

upload it
somewhere.  (The file itself is just my working list.  It's not
going
on the
webpage, so don't worry about the formatting or font.  I'll deal
with
that when
I code the page.)
    I really appreciate any help which anyone can offer.  And I

think it
will benefit the community as well, to have sort of a master list
available, so
users don't have to spend so much time searching the internet.
Thank you very much,
brynn

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