Another: http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/parsing-and-setting-colors-inkscape-extensions/
>From here, I'll keep the list to myself, and share when I finish searching ;-) brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brynn" <br...@frii.com> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 4:53 PM To: "Inkscape-Docs" <inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] more on writing extensions > That sounds reasonable to me. From what I recall of his message on the > list, it seems like he might be interested. > > However, I've just rediscovered another guide that I knew about a long > time ago, but had forgotten about. http://sugarpillstudios.com/wp/?p=142 > > So now with 3 potentially helpful, but "unofficial" guides, will it be > reasonable to ask all 3 authors to contribute to the website? Or maybe I > will discover more? > > I certainly don't mind contacting them and asking...or inviting them to > help with the official guide (especially since I've been "pushing" to get > a guide written). But I'm not sure if it would be appropriate. Kind of > like making "cold calls" an old telemarketing term, meaning to sell > something to strangers who have no previous interest in the product. > > I'm guessing they might offer to let us quote from their guides, rather > than find the time to do it themselves. I mean, I don't mind trying to > contact them, if that's what we decide to do. Who knows? Maybe they > would want to work together on it? > > Or maybe someone who is more familiar with writing extensions could use > the info from these 3 guides, to add to the official one? It's all just a > little beyond my reach, to be able to do that myself. When I read these > guides, I get through the first 3 or 4 paragraphs, and then I'm completely > lost. > > Anyone else with ideas? (or offers :-)) > > brynn > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Martin Owens" <docto...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 4:04 PM > To: "Brynn" <br...@frii.com> > Cc: "Inkscape-Docs" <inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] more on writing extensions > >> Hi Brynn, >> >> What would be a really good outreach is if you contact the author of the >> medium.com article and ask him if he'd like to improve the inkscape.org >> extension guide with the information he's written on his blog. >> >> that way we don't have to link to something that might disapear for >> information we should certainly have the best of on our website and we >> potentially invite a new contributor to help out on the official pages. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Best Regards, Martin Owens >> >> On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 15:22 -0700, Brynn wrote: >>> Hi Friends (Maren, Martin), >>> I've been wondering whether it might be a good idea to have a >>> link >>> to the guide to writing extensions, which recently was mentioned in a >>> message on the dev list >>> (https://medium.com/@xaviju/inkscape-extensions-by-non-developers-for-non-developers-a-primer-b272dda360fe) >>> somewhere on the website. Maybe either on the Develop page, or on the >>> new >>> Extensions page? >>> And since I just came across another less technical kind of >>> guide: >>> http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/write-inkscape-extension-create-multiple-duplicates/, >>> I'm motivated to bring up the issue here. >>> Should they be listed/linked? I think they both serve as simple >>> examples, which potentially could help new extension-writers. Or would >>> they >>> just be in that category of more links that are prone to bitrot? >>> Just a thought. I'll be glad to make the edits, if everyone >>> else >>> agrees. >>> >>> All best, >>> brynn >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inkscape-docs mailing list >>> Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs
