At the same time, I use Trace Bitmap pretty constantly. It is such a an immensely useful feature that I think it's worth making sure Potrace is installed as a dependency of Inkscape, unless there is a particularly compelling reason why it isn't.

-C

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:43 PM, C R <cajhne@...400...> wrote:
From experience, it's better not to show options that aren't available. 
This is a major usability issue of KdenLive for example. It shows you ALL the video export options it has, most of them aren't even available without extra packages installed (and then often it still doesn't work). 

If people miss the feature, they will be asking for it anyway. If not, there is no use in showing the user what they can not have, I think. :)

In short: If there is not an easy fix for the issue, it's better to leave the user out of it, imho.

My 2p.

-C 

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote:
Hi to all!!!

I notice in Debian stretch no trace bitmap option showed in the menu if
Potrace aren't instaled. ¿Maybe is beter show it always, and if
selected, fire a warning message? 

Cheers, Jabier.

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