Wenn es nötig ist, kann man eine (installierte) Sprache erzwingen, indem man den undokumentierten lang Parameter in den Startbefehl in der Desktop-Datei einfügt. Dann könnte man z. B. einen Starter für SketchUp auf deutsch, englisch, französisch etc. machen, die sich alle auf diesselbe SketchUp-Installation beziehen.
Aber in der Tat nicht so unkompliziert für Benutzer einstellbar, wie wenn es in den Voreinstellungen ein Auswahlfeld gäbe.

With gems that contain native code you bring in platform dependency (whereas pure Ruby was platform-independent).

I haven't yet any experiences with libxml, but I built a solution using the browser's DOM parser (was practical since I have a webdialog anyways). Now it's much faster than ReXML, but I met another bottleneck, SketchUp's speed in creating entities.

Die deutsche Version lässt sich auch in Englisch (und evt. anderen Sprachen) starten. Ich glaube, die Lizenz ist unabhängig von der Sprache.

Is the dialog box completely blank, or is only the map blank?
As you say that you can access 3D Warehouse inside SketchUp, it is probably not your firewall blocking SketchUp. I think it should even work without flash, but sometimes the browser's cache contains old or corrupted files. Try clearing the cache and cookies of the OS's default browser (Internet Explorer/Safari).
Does it work on another user account?

That is innovation of photomatch+pushpull! That sets the bar very high.

I think 3D Warehouse requires that kmz models have a geo coordinates, and they probably use a script to extract it. Maybe it hasn't been designed for files other than those produced by SketchUp or most programs. Maybe the data structure (<document>, <folder>) is different than expected (though still valid)?

As a side note, 3D Warehouse didn't allow mp3 files last time I tried (I had to save it on a web url). But I don't think that causes the above message…

You can make each single face unique using this plugin: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=41441&p=466990

Why do I reply here I'm not a god…

Zoom level is a browser chrome feature. In Internet Explorer (non-standard):
dialog.execute_script("document.body.style.zoom = 0.5")

Native buttons have a default padding (and margin etc.) that depends on the user interface theme. Once you override such a property (like padding: 0) the button can't be rendered anymore using the theme, and it won't look native anymore. Because of that it is not a good idea to use pixel dimensions when you design dynamic interfaces that are influenced for example by the user's default fonts/sizes/buttons.
Use only pixel dimensions if you have control over all dimensions (or specify all sizes and fonts).

<button type="next" id="click" value="next" onclick="next = '1'"><img src="images/next.png" alt="next"></button> without width/height works fine for me. If you needed the width to align it correctly, you can use container elements instead to align all child elements horizontally/vertically or whatever.

I once had something similar setup, whenever a file was opened a plugin would save a large thumbnail with alpha channel into a folder. However it wasn't a batch script (to do all at once).

You would need to iterate through files in a folder and open one after the other using the API method. I assume all the needed API methods are synchronous (otherwise you would need observers).

On a tous été "utilisés" pour des cibles commerciaux. Maintenant Google introduit des nouveaux "machines" comme on peut échanger des parts d'une usine.
Malheureusement beaucoup de modèleurs ont transformé la géo-modelisation en un projet artistique, modelisant avec une précision perfectioniste, des détails filigranes et des textures soigneusement préparées. Une communauté des humains ne peut pas être adaptée à un tel grand nombre des bâtiments qu'il y a sur nôtre monde (2 million de villes). Mais il est aussi difficile de leurs expliquer qu'on n'a plus besoin de modeleurs.

Plus d'infos sur l'exploitation des communautés on-line: http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635

Il ne faut pas oublier que la nouvelle technologie de Google est loin d'être prêt. Voyez mon Clos de Vougeot qui se voit maintenant comme du chocolat fondu (dans Google Earth 7).

Oh no, that's obviously incompatible with SketchUp

The new icon theme was certainly a lot of effort (to make it complete) and they must have tested it somehow extensively. I'm not sure if much is likely to be changed at all.

I think rather extensions have (some) poor quality, mixed quality and some with good design. Having a cookbook (tips&tricks) for SketchUp icon design or some guidelines would be good to create consistency. It had been easy with modeling the icon in SketchUp itself (which I think gave SketchUp its character). But now, what exactly do I do now to design an icon that matches?

If you want to modify the mesh by subdivision, you should look into Artisan. If you just want to smooth the edges of a box, Round Corner could be enough.

The API does not provide any controls for this.

What you can do (if your application supports distorted texture coordinates) is to export the original texture image (create a temporary group, apply the material and write it through TextureWriter).

Or you export the original texture image and apply the distortion with an external image processing library (like imagemagick), according to settings of your choice )like double the image resolution).

The problem is not trivial. I once tried to do a better "Make texture unique", but it's hard to determine the best texture size because the resolution of a distorted texture in the model varies a lot. For example one could sample the texture resolution in the center of the face, but then the upper right corner in your example would have too high resolution whereas the lower left corner would still be blurry.

@unknownuser said:

There are the release notes with all improvements, and 180 additional "improvements" in the Extension Warehouse

It's not in the right-click menu of the primary toolbar, but in the menu View → Toolbars. There you can get all the toolbars and arrange them anywhere on your screen.

Firefox!

SketchUp 8 has the same features, except that there is no icon in the tooltips (and because of this the tooltips work). Apart from that, SU8 needs a plugin to customize toolbars, and you need to open Extension Warehouse in a browser instead of inside SketchUp.