We need to rethink this approach to warning about unloaded extensions. It seems to be causing a LOT of confusion amongst our user community, of which the below is representative.
At the very least the dialog needs some text explaining the implications for the users so they don't jump to the conclusion that Inkscape is broken.
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"One or more extensions failed to load The failed extensions have been skipped. Inkscape will continue to run normally but those extensions will be unavailable."
Wayne...I plan to run dual-boot but had problems loading Mandrake which I am investigating. The above shows that the Windows load of Inkscape HAS PROBLEMS and that this isn't just an open-source distribution issue. I would appreciate that this fact be recognized as discussion proceeds. I am new to open-source except for the Gimp. What is an "extension?" What are the implications of lacking an extension? What is new in .41 which would provoke this error message? (The situation is independent of service packs.) ....RCs
On 9 Mar 2005 at 9:37, wayne wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 07:03 am, oisin feeley wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:10:46 -1000, wayne <iw@...131...> wrote:
Just installed inkscape 0.41 with autopackage. When I open it,
I
get a message saying that one or more extensions failed to
load.
I get that message too and it doesn't appear to affect running inkscape-0.41, so you may be able to discount it from your debugging. Examining the file ~/.inkscape/extension-errors.log
shows
the following.
Extension "Sketch Input" failed to load because a dependency was
not
met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: skconvert
Extension "Postscript Input" failed to load because a dependency
was
not met. Dependency:: type: extension location: path string: org.inkscape.input.sk
Extension "Postscript Input" failed to load because a dependency
was
not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: pstoedit
Extension "AI Output" failed to load because a dependency was
not
met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: pstoedit Extension "EPS Input" failed to load because a dependency was
not
met. Dependency:: type: extension location: path string: org.inkscape.input.ps
Oisin
0.4.1 doesn't run at all after the "one or more extensions failed
to
load" error window. I end up with the command line error message about:
SCIM: im_module_init
free(): invalid pointer 0x9453670! free(): invalid pointer 0x9453650!
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Wayne
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