Fwd: [Clipart] Clip Art Navigator 0.31

[Greg Steffensen]

I really need to learn to use the reply all button.

Greg

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 22, 2005 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Clipart] Clip Art Navigator 0.31
To: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>


> Have you talked to Jonadab and Bryce about this indexing system? Also,
> it would be good to check to see if the clipart folder has been indexed,
> and if not, then index it. Also, the indexing script should be able to
> take path to the clipart and also, write the index out to that path, and
> if there is no path passed, seems like if there is one defined in the
> conf, it should process there, and then if there is not one defined in
> conf (or if the one in the conf isn't valid), THEN parse the current
> working directory. It seems to only do the current working directory
> right now...(I'm not going through the code btw right now)

I believe it parses whatever dir is passed as the first argument, and
if none is, then cwd.  I'm out of town now, or I'd verify that, but
the sequence you described is logical.  Should be simple to implement.

> Wait, its not clear to me what the module OCAL does.

It accesses ocal remotely, via web forms (for now).  ocal_net is a
clearer name, that's trivial to implement too.

> Has anyone answered this yet? I'm not currently sure, but I agree with
> you that there might be a better place for conf files for extensions...I
> can see as more and more extensions get added that this folder is going
> to grow. Maybe a better strategy is to have folders for each extension
> in the extensions folder, and then inside that folder could be any type
> of file related to the extension. I think this is how plugins are
> handled on Photoshop and Illustrator.

Cool.  Early on, Ted mentioned that he'd like to provide some way for
extensions to store configuration info in some way accessible to
Inkscape, and have Inkscape pass their info in at invokation time.
For now, that seems like needless complexity though, since mine is the
only extension that could use that.

Greg