How about a pop-up menu upon release, with an additional link to the corresponding properties dialogue where you can set the default to avoid all the popping up?
Embed image Link image ---------- Set default
An icon appears in the corner when you click the image to indicate the status. As to whether it can be used to convert from one state to another though, there's the problem that embedding images may be one way. After embedding the file may have been passed around (which is the main purpose for embedding after all) so the link would no longer be there.
A toggle button in the upper bar should work too.
--- On Sun, 12/27/09, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
From: Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Specification: Improved image To: "Valerie" <valerie_vk@...36...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sunday, December 27, 2009, 10:08 PM Valerie wrote:
On the issue of linking vs embedding images: can't we
just have 2 commands?
- Embed an image
- Link an image
Certainly, but the problem is when the command is implicit in the action, such as Drag-and-Drop. Which should we choose?
With out thinking about users and workflows, I would like to see:
- some on canvas indication of whether an image is linked
or embeded. just something, perhaps a little icon. 2) a simple way of converting an image between the two states. I would like a context menu, but others might have better ideas. 3) a dialog listing all images, their properties and their linkedness or embededness. the dialog should also allow switching the location of the images.
I don't think these things solve the problem of choosing suitable defaults, but they might make the problem even more apparent and supply another way of dealing with it.
Aaron Spike