On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 01:17, bulia byak wrote:
Yesterday I prepared an inkscape package for debian unstable from 0.39pre4. Now, always when I start inkscape I get the message "Couldn't find helper" in my terminal window.
I removed this today. Ted, please don't leave unnecessary debug outputs, especially those that (may) show up on every program run!
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.
--Ted
PS - In the future I'd like to see a GUI element that is something like an "extensions console" which would allow users to get more information on extensions.