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On Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 11:33 PM brynn, <br...@frii.com> wrote:
> Actually I just had another thought about this.
>
> Is it unreasonable to expect that the extension developer knows which
> versions
> or operating systems their extension works with? Why not make sure the
> developer shares that when the extension is released to the community?
>
> Would it be possible to have extra fields be displayed, in the upload
> form, when
> the Extensions category is chosen? Is there any way to configure the
> upload
> form, so that info has to be provided, before it will upload?
>
> Or if not mandatory fields, would it be possible to just display a
> prominent
> notice, when the Extensions category is selected, asking the developer to
> please, please, please include that info?
>
> All best,
> brynn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Westmann
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2018 10:09 PM
> To: Brynn
> Cc: Inkscape-Docs
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] extension testers needed
>
>
> Got it!
>
> No no. You said it right. I was just wondering if we could promote
> inkscape
> extensions more widely and more clearly. I use inkscape since 2007 but
> just
> recently understood how to use and enable some of the extensions... hehe.
>
> Hopefully not all inkscape users are as distracted as I am/was. :)
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 8:52 PM brynn, <br...@frii.com> wrote:
> Hi Victor,
> Well, the gallery is the first item in the Community tab, in the
> main
> menu. There's also a promonent link on the front page of the website.
>
> And more specifically about extensions, at the bottom of the guide
> for
> writing extensions (https://inkscape.org/en/develop/extensions/) it
> mentions
> uploading it to the gallery (or a link to it). It even gives steps how to
> do
> it.
>
> I can't think of any way to make sure that /all/ extensions are in
> the
> gallery. But I think eventually, most of them will be there.
>
> Or did I miss your point?
>
> brynn
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Westmann
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:46 PM
> To: brynn
> Cc: Inkscape-Docs ; Maximilian Gaukler
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] extension testers needed
>
>
> Brynn,
>
> Thank you for your always detailed and very well explained email.
>
> Allow me one silly question, please: is it possible for us to announce the
> gallery in the main inkscape website so the inkscape extension developers
> can
> publish them in our gallery?
>
> Let me know if I missed anything.
>
>
>
>
> --Victor Westmann
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:41 PM, brynn <br...@frii.com> wrote:
> Short answer:
>
> It will be different in 2 ways. 1 - It will include all known extensions,
> and
> 2 - it will only be links to download pages, not any actual extensions.
> Here's
> the page, but it only has tutorials and a couple of books on it now:
> https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php.
>
> As far as I understand, you don't have to host your extensions in the
> gallery.
> If you prefer to use a repo like github, you can just put the link to it
> in your
> gallery posting. (But for newbies, it would be nice to include specific
> info
> about exactly what to download. I'm not exactly a newbie, but I still get
> confused when I have to go to github to download something.)
>
> I think the gallery category *could be* the main distribution channel.
> But I'm
> not sure how that could be controlled. Once it becomes known more widely,
> I
> would guess that most extensions will be found there. But I think
> extensions
> will always be scattered around, to some extent.
>
> Long answer:
> Currently external Inkscape extensions are scattered far and wide across
> the
> internet. By my count, that is approximately (roughly) 300 extensions! A
> few
> of us are working on contacting as many extension authors as we can, and
> informing them about the gallery, which might not have even existed, when
> they
> created their extensions.
>
> But when I say "a few", really only one person is doing that work, with me
> and
> another person (Maren) providing support when we can. The work is going
> very
> slow, as far as I can tell. I think the reason it's going so slow, is that
> person (Mark Shafer) (I probably mispelled the last name) is also
> attempting to
> bring older extensions up to date, at the same time. If we were to focus
> only
> on contacting the authors, it would probably go faster. This is our working
> page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_Extensions.
>
> Between that page, the original Extensions Repository (which was only
> sparsely
> used by extension authors, afaict)
> (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_repository), and the
> gallery's extensions category (https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=extension/
> ),
> that's all the extensions we know of.
>
> I just want to have sort of a master list of extensions, because as I
> provide
> support for Inkscape (primarily in forums) I'm sick and tired of searching
> hither and yon to help users find extensions. Plus, having such a list
> will
> allow users to search on their own.
>
> If someday, we finally have all the external extensions in the gallery,
> I'll
> happily delete my list of links (to download pages). I'm not sure if that
> would
> ever happen, but I'd be happy if it did.
>
> My desire to put out a call for testers will benefit both the
> comprehensive list
> I'm making, as well as the gallery category. I'm also getting tired of
> explaining to people who are searching for extensions, that 'here are all
> our
> extensions, but we have no idea which ones work, which version they work
> with,
> or on which systems'. So even when we have them all in one place, we'll
> still
> be reciting the same lines, unless we can gather that info about them.
>
> All best,
> brynn
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Maximilian Gaukler
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 1:39 PM
> To: inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] extension testers needed
>
>
> Hi brynn,
>
> I may have missed something - in what way is your extension page
> different from the extension gallery? Is it only for extensions not
> listed in the gallery?
> https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=extension/
>
> Do you have a link to your page?
>
> Anyway, I'd like to get an overview of existing extensions out there in
> the web, especially the ones that do similar work to the ones I am
> contributing to.
>
> Regarding the gallery:
>
> Is there a way to add an extension to the gallery without uploading a
> zip file? I would like to link only to github, as I don't like having to
> reupload it for every new version: That's duplicate work and tends to be
> forgotten, especially if the inkscape website is not the main
> distribution channel.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Max
>
>
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