Re: "Generate" Extensions menu

I suggest "Generate from Path" be a sub-menu of "Generate"

Andrew



On Wed  5 Sep 2018 11:31 -0600, brynn wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your comments, C R.
> 
> I would worry that naming it "Generate" would create confusion with the
> other submenu called "Generate from Path".  I wonder if another word might
> be better?
> 
> What about "Create"?  Or "Draw"?  Maybe "Display"???
> 
> All best,
> brynn
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: C R
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2018 6:36 PM
> To: Inkscape User Community
> Cc: inkscape-devel
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] improve organization of Extensions menu
> 
> 
> Thanks for the work, Brynn! I'd like to suggest that the "Render" category
> be changed to "Generate", because "Render" in graphics is most often the
> generation of raster graphics from data (such as vectors).
> 
> The rest of your proposal sounds good to me.
> -C
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 1:11 AM brynn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>        As part of my project to get all the known external extensions listed in
> one place, and trying to organize them (using the current Extensions menu as a
> starting place) I've realized that how the Extensions menu is organized might
> need some improvement.  I've also discussed it privately with a couple of other
> users.  So I thought I'd bring up the subject with developers.
> 
>        For example.
> 
> 1 -- Should Stylesheet be a submenu under Web?
> 2 -- Should Typography be a submenu under Text?
> 
>        Currently, many extension makers seem to be making their own submenus
> for their extensions.  For people who use a lot of external extensions, I wonder
> if their menus are harder to use.  If we had the menu already organized, it
> might inspire extension makers to put their extensions into the pre-existing
> submenus, rather than make their own.
> 
> 3 -- Should there be a Gcode submenu under Export?  (more about Export submenu
> below)
> 
>        In my list, I've created a separate Gcode category.  There are lots of
> external extensions which produce gcode (approx 20).  I don't know where they
> would show up in the Extensions menu, yet (since I just now learned how to find
> out).  But as I said, it might help keep the menu clean, to have submenus ready
> for the external extensions, even if there might not be any built-in extensions
> for some submenus.
> 
> 4 -- Should the current Gcodetools submenu appear within this proposed Gcode
> submenu?
> 
> 5 -- To accomodate external extensions, both Render and Export need to be
> divided into several submenus.
> 
> 6 -- I've also created a new category (for my list) Animation/Presentation
> (currently 10 or 12 of them).  It seems like the existing JessyInk submenu
> should go under there (assuming we were to agree on adding such a submenu).
> 
> 7 -- There are 3 external extensions which comprise a Boolean category.  But
> shouldn't Boolean be under the existing Modify Path submenu?
> 
> 8 -- And once I get all the external ones organized, I guess other instances of
> potentially improved organization might come to light.
> 
> 
>        If anyone else has any observations about improving the organization of
> the Extensions menu, please feel free to make comments  :-)
> 
>        Yes, I realize a lot of developers are getting ready to go to Hackfest.
> But I wanted to mention this, in case it might come up.  Otherwise, it can still
> be discussed, now or later.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> brynn
> 
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