Sven of GIMP fame has set up svenfoo as a weblog. He as an entry on dealing with library objects in the GIMP. He is working on this for GIMP 2.4, and Inkscape folks should take notice. While we don't have the problem yet, we will as more and more gradients, patterns and markers start appearing. Solving it in a similar way as The GIMP would be good.

This could also be an issue for extensions, although some problems have been solved by including load/unload functions so that only metadata has to be stored in Inkscape when the extension isn't being used. I'm not 100% sure that will be enough. Working on getting a large collection of extensions first.


posted Apr 13, 2005 | permanent link