[Kde-bindings] python scripting extensions

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Phil Thompson wrote:

> What are the skills of the users and what do they want to achieve?

Well, right now, the most desired things are adding new dock widgets for e.g. color selectors and adding scripts to save an image as multiple images. Not so much implementing image filters, import/export plugins or brush algorithms yet.

> Do those libraries represent an existing public API?

Sort of... There are plugins written against them, but the api hasn't been stable for the past ten years, at all.

> My gut feel would always be to define a new scripting API layer and bind to that. That allows you to start small and extend on the basis of user's feedback.

Thanks -- that feels better to me, too. It's going to be fun, in any case, being back in the Python world for the first time since 2003 :-)

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