Ted Gould wrote:
I disagree on your assessment here. Unfortunately, this is the only way that users will know that something unexpected has happened. For instance, why is "Dia" greyed out on my open dialog? While there isn't currently a GUI way to show this, I think that the least we can give them is a message on the console giving them some guidance to what Inkscape is thinking. Granted, it should probably say _which_ helper is missing so that the user could go and try to find it, but I think that the error itself is useful for users.
But it would be nice to redirect the messages elsewhere...
I have been mentioning a "Debug console" window as a desirable thing, for a while now. Messages via Stdout/Stderr might be somewhat annoying on Unices, but they can really turn someone away if a DOS window appears on Windows.
Bob