As someone who uses connectors all the damn time, I'd like to toss in support for... uh more support. :D They actually slow down inkscape, and the more of them they are the worse it gets. If someone could fix that and bring proper support to svg (even Inkscape's svg 2.0+ that will surely result from continued development) I'm all for it. I know others who also want better connector support as well.

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On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:

Hi Steve,

What you're looking at there is draft svg specification. Something that wasn't accepted as svg. At the moment, SVG 1.1 and 2.0 both don't have connector support. This specification was spun out into a module because it's not useful to web browsers, so it sits over there waiting for someone to add it to inkscape.

But even if we did, it wouldn't be supported in browsers, it'd just be useful to us. So not exactly useful overall.

What was your plan?

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 16:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:

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Hi all,

I want to be able to make an *SVG* connector that doesn't rely on the facilities of Inkscape to do its thing. According to this URL there is such a thing:

https://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/connector/SVGConnector.html#ConnectorE lement

When I make a connector in Inkscape using the little connector symbol, in XML it shows up as a path, not a connector, and it has inkscape:connector-type. When I save as plain SVG, the inkscape:connector-type goes away, and it's nothing more than a line segment.

How do I make a real SVG connector in Inkscape?

Thanks,

SteveT

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Hi Steve,

it's funny you mention this... because I was just thinking about this yesterday.

If we could make some symbols (Open Symbols) that could be pieces of diagrams.

It might be possible. What kind of diagrams are you talking about though?

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On Fri, 12 May 2017 22:34:24 +0100 C R <cajhne@...155...> wrote:

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As someone who uses connectors all the damn time, I'd like to toss in support for... uh more support. :D They actually slow down inkscape, and the more of them they are the worse it gets. If someone could fix that and bring proper support to svg (even Inkscape's svg 2.0+ that will surely result from continued development) I'm all for it. I know others who also want better connector support as well.

Coincidentally, or perhaps not, today while I was messing around with a connector in a drawing in Inkscape, my user interface started going so slow I thought it wasn't responding. At the time, I chalked it up to the fact that I was XML-editing the connector in ways it probably shouldn't have been, as well as snaking it between "connector-avoid" rectangles.

But after your mentioning that connectors make things go slow, perhaps my experience was an example of what you're saying.

I've been using dia for block diagrams. Perhaps if Inkscape connectors get a little faster I'll block diagram in Inkscape.

SteveT

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On Fri, 12 May 2017 17:16:17 -0400 Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:

Hi Steve,

What you're looking at there is draft svg specification. Something that wasn't accepted as svg. At the moment, SVG 1.1 and 2.0 both don't have connector support. This specification was spun out into a module because it's not useful to web browsers, so it sits over there waiting for someone to add it to inkscape.

But even if we did, it wouldn't be supported in browsers, it'd just be useful to us. So not exactly useful overall.

What was your plan?

I'm making a web page with lots of screw heads, and when you click two of them, a connector (wire) connects the two of them. If they'd worked in a browser, SVG connectors would have been the easiest way to do this. But now that I know SVG connectors won't work, I'll just use a line segment and properly set its d property based on the cx and cy of the two clicked screw heads. For a straight line segment, I think this is going to be fairly easy. To get good looking curved wires will require quite a few calculations.

But before I went to all that trouble, I just wanted to check and make sure I couldn't use a SVG connector.

Thanks,

SteveT

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