Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
btw, I'm not really sure that the current way of dealing with embedding/exporting raster files in SVG document really optimal. See, opening an arbitrary file I can't tell if an image used there is embedded or not without looking into source code.There's no indicator to tell that. An improved hint in status bar could probably be the first step in the right, IMO, direction. Something like "Embedded image A x B size in layer N" and "External image A x B size in layer N". What do you think?
Can you elaborate a little? For me, when I open an svg in inkscape which has an imported image, the status bar does tell me where it is. For a non-embedded image the message is already "Image # x #: /home/example/picture.jpg in layer LayerName" or for an embedded image it's "Image # x #: embedded in layer LayerName". So, as far as I can tell, it gives the status bar messages you're looking for unless you are looking for the specific wording of "External image" for the embedded ones.
-Josh