W dniu 23 października 2009 17:18 użytkownik Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> napisał:
You are thinking of *your* intuition. There is roughly half the user population who's intuition is the *opposite* of yours.
You say that 50% of people prefer linking and 50% prefer embedding. I am certain this is not true. Most people expect the image to stay in place. When you send an email attachment, it is not a magical link to the data on your computer. When you paste an image into a Word / ODT file, it is not a link to that file on your hard disk. When you paste SVG elements from another document, they do not magically become a link to that second document.
However... I don't think the "Therefore" actually quite matches. Among other issues, a drag-n-drop is actually a complex paste operation. So I think the code is doing a few things you don't expect.
Drag and drop is currently not related to pasting, because drag and drop is implemented in src/interface.cpp, and pasting in src/ui/clipboard.cpp. They don't use the same code path. In fact the import code is simpler, because imported / dragged items are put into a group. Not sure if that's what you meant.
Also for the import case, embedding will break things for many, many users. We've looked at that a few times.
For who, and in what cases? You sometimes say that a proposed solution will cause 'important issues for many users', but don't say what those issues actually are.
The good solution is to create a "media manager" that handles things like images, linked css files, ICC profile files, etc.
This would be great to have, along with UI improvements to enable using common styles. The image links manager proposed in this thread is a good start, and could be extended to Still, I think this is orthogonal to what the defaults are.
Things can then be worked out with the UI and perhaps a "Publish" menu/command that does things a bit more explicitly than "save as" or "export".
I think that "Publish" is a stupidity cloned from Corel Draw. Why should saving a PDF be completely different from saving any other file? Moreover the name is misleading: you are actually not 'publishing' anything in the sense of showing it to the outside world. You are only saving a file. A better name is "save standalone document" or something like this, but I don't see a difference between this and Export.
Regards, Krzysztof