On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:13:37 +1100, vellum <kaver@...68...> wrote:
I totally agree. As a win user it freaks me out and I've been in here for years. "The problem is not abnormal"? I don't even know what the problem is,
Read the warning. It explains it quite well.
so heaven help somebody picking up Inkscape for the first time.
Tons of other software have these first-run warnings of different sort. It's common. The "run this at startup" checkbox solves the problem once and forever.
telling people what to do about it. The average user just is not going to do anything about it, except say "Bye". They will want something that works, not something that half, quarter etc works.
Sorry but this is ridiculous. Just for an example, a freshly installed Xara gives me two warnings in a row (about non-English language and something else, I don't remember now). Has it precluded it from becoming a popular program? Not at all.
My thoughts are: If it doesn't work, lets put some real effort into fixing it
Fixing WHAT? Extensions do work IF YOU INSTALL THEM. We cannot install tons of different software with ourselves, it's your responsibility to install it if you need these formats. This is what this warning is about.