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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><div>> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 19:14:19 -0400<br>> From: gpittman@iglou.com<br>> To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>> Subject: Re: [scribus] Getting my script into the distribution.<br>> <br>> On 07/06/2015 02:27 PM, John Culleton wrote:<br>> > I have asked this question before. I have a<br>> > script for laying out a perfect bound book<br>> > cover. I would like to have it included in<br>> > current distributions such as 1.5.1 and/or 1.5.0.<br>> > I have posted it to my area on the web site. <br>> > Now how do I get it into the distros? <br>> > <br>> Speaking as someone who has written quite a number of scripts, and had<br>> just a few which were brought in as included scripts (and not my<br>> decision by the way), the sense I get is that there needs to be some<br>> sort of collective opinion that a particular script has a wide enough<br>> audience of users.<br>> <br>> It would be great if we heard some feedback from people using your<br>> script, who might make some suggestions for potential modifications.<br>> Otherwise you might be the only one using it, and you already have it.<br>> <br>> Greg<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is a page with about 100 example scripts at <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Category:Scripts" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Category:Scripts</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ale once made a git repository of scripts <a href="https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-repository" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-repository</a> with the intention to write an extension manager to browse and install them <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Improve_scripting_and_its_experience_in_Scribus" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Improve_scripting_and_its_experience_in_Scribus</a> and <a href="http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2014-June/050493.html" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2014-June/050493.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>"Scribus 1.5 -> Help -> Scribus Online Documentation" opens a web browser to <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Help:TOC" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Help:TOC</a></div><div><br></div><div>Until the extension manager is ready, would it be hard to make an option under the "Scripter" menu item to open a web browser to <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Category:Scripts" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Category:Scripts</a> ?</div><div><br></div><div>William</div><div><br></div> </div></body>
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