Update README.md and Requirements.txt

[mofosyne]

Add to readme information about mathplotlib

[mofosyne]

This change was based on my experience in this issue ticket #245

This readme update doesn't address the udev rule issue encountered in it as I'm not sure what the best way to explain why it doesn't work on a fresh install and that you have to add extra udev rules to make this work.

[mofosyne]

Btw... I've been wondering how to get a console log of this extension so I can better understand what it's thinking.

Also bit of a python noob so would be good to hear recommendation how to hook up a debugger to this.

[t0b3]

Btw... I've been wondering how to get a console log of this extension so I can better understand what it's thinking.

Also bit of a python noob so would be good to hear recommendation how to hook up a debugger to this.

Simply run python sendto_silhouette.py --help or copy the specific command from any of your log files.
You will get some output on cmdline and even more in the log file. Also consider --logfile /tmp/PATH_OF_YOUR_CHOICE_TO_LOGFILE

[t0b3]

Add to readme information about matplotlib

Thank you for your valuable contribution. Dependencies may change every now and then. (i.e. Inscape 1.4 will require tinycss2) To avoid duplication and sync' efforts I'd rather prefer pip install -r requirements.txt. This also helps keeping instructions more platform agnostic (except for GTK and matplotlib which are better managed by the distro). Can you update this PR accordingly?

BTW: And at the same time I'd like to merge the two Ubuntu parts keeping the inkscape:stable repo instruction with the advantage of using the latest version. (currently 1.3)

[mofosyne]

Simply run python sendto_silhouette.py --help or copy the specific command from any of your log files.
You will get some output on cmdline and even more in the log file. Also consider --logfile /tmp/PATH_OF_YOUR_CHOICE_TO_LOGFILE

That would require me to run that script outside of inkscape? Might be a bit clunky.

I think what would be ideal is to set /tmp/inkscape-silhouette.log as the logfile by default. Not sure where to add that in however.

[t0b3]

Simply run python sendto_silhouette.py --help or copy the specific command from any of your log files.
You will get some output on cmdline and even more in the log file. Also consider --logfile /tmp/PATH_OF_YOUR_CHOICE_TO_LOGFILE

That would require me to run that script outside of inkscape? Might be a bit clunky.

I think what would be ideal is to set /tmp/inkscape-silhouette.log as the logfile by default. Not sure where to add that in however.

While there are use cases that invoke inkscape-silhouette.py directly, yet it's obvious this won't fit for all.

[mofosyne]

This readme change is ready to merge now

Regarding logging. Created a separate PR for it #249 "sento_silhouette: logfile param defaults to /tmp/inkscape-silhouette.log #249" so that it will pick a system default location for the logfile if empty and enabled.

[mofosyne]

All minor changes made as requested

[mofosyne]

Done

[t0b3]

@mofosyne THX for your contributions 🚀 that's what makes opensource so wonderful 😄

[mofosyne]

Not a problem. I would say @miLORD1337 get a lot of credit for getting the ball rolling in the first place.