On Dec 26, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
2 is IMO solved appropriately for now: the "edit externally" link is grayed out for embedded images. Editing an embedded image is not trivial, but it can be done using temporary files. I highly doubt your earlier statement that users expect to see the changes in Inkscape after editing the original images, because no other application they can paste images into creates links on pasting.
And now this is a point where you really go off from the real world.
1) you might highly doubt users behave that way... but I have *observed* users behave that way again and again and in many different contexts.
2) Many many many programs out there *do* paste links. They might be more common with workflows different than the workflows you personally use... but that does not mean they do not exist.