--verb actions not possible in --shell mode

[BenjaminBerg]

For gnome-icon-theme I had written a script that executes inkscape in --shell mode, and then renders all the icons with this instance into PNG files. This is working great, however, we also wanted this faster method for gnome-icon-theme-symbolic.

Now, here is the issue. The current script runs the following inkscape command:
inkscape -f #{icon[:file]} --select #{icon[:id]} --verb=FitCanvasToSelection --verb=EditInvertInAllLayers --verb=EditDelete --verb=EditSelectAll --verb=SelectionUnGroup --verb=StrokeToPath --verb=FileVacuum --verb=FileSave --verb=FileClose

Most of these can be done with --verb (deleting by modifying the xml, and the reset with non --verb commands in inkscape). However, the StrokeToPath (and FitCanvasToSelection) cannot be done in --shell mode.

I have though of different solutions, but all seem to not work (properly):
 1. Starting one inkscape instance with the command line repeated for the different icons (this causes multiple windows to open up)
 2. Use an extension to save/load a document. This does not work because --verb cannot execute extensions (and would be problematic because one would need to load an extension outside $HOME likely)
 3. Remote controlling inkscape using a11y methods. I have not looked into this closer as the a11y stack currently crashes here.

No idea what a good solution might look like. I guess that a way to close the a file, and open a new file in between other --verb options, might work pretty well.

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

Verbs have been removed in favor of actions in Inkscape 1.2.

Closed by https://gitlab.com/jhofinger