Inkscape Wishlist

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This file is for capturing random details about desired development

work, ideas, etc. The Inkscape feature request page is probably a

better location for such things, but this can serve as a convenient

scratchpad.

Rework xml tree

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use reprs as lightweight wrappers around gnome-xml,

keeping syntax as close to DOM as possible

Split SPDesktop object into modular inherited objects

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SPDesktop - base, has drawing group, no contexts

SPEDesktop - editable desktop - more full-featured

SPNamedDesktop - Desktop, deriving its layout from NamedView - i.e. guides,

grid etc. will be saved per-desktop

desktop_show_borders/hide_borders - show/hide rulers & stuff - usable for

Bonobo component

Javascript for Animation support(?)

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> The mozilla javascript engine is under dual MPL/GPL

> (http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/js/src/) and written in C.

> Hopefully there's some nice way to build off that...

The main reason JavaScript would be tricky is that it would be modifying

the document out from under you via the DOM, so you couldn't have a

"time slider" or something like you could for the SMIL stuff.

That's a real headache, and the only way I can see it working is if the

document is cloned and played back in a separate "audition" window, then

the modified document thrown away at the end.

But then, why implement Javascript in Inkscape? An audition feature

that calls out to an external player application would work just as well

(and indeed, that's exactly how applications like Flash cope with

scripting).

[ note that implementing scripting for Inkscape itself is a separate

issue, and probably warrants a language-agnostic scripting interface

like the GIMP's PDB, only less grotty ]

-- Mental