On Dec 26, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
To reiterate, I do not want to remove link support. I only want the user to be aware of the fact that he is creating a link, with the action being described as "Create Link" not "Paste". Otherwise he will end up with broken documents.
And I'd say here that we have two issues, one good and one bad.
The analysis is good: "users unaware of linking are surprised by the behavior"
The solution is not so good: "Change default behavior to *not* link, plus add a notification only at creation time"
Instead I would say a better solution is: "Make the UI convey link vs. embedded constantly and consistently so the user is never surprised."
(Oh, one general non-Inkscape use case to check behavior is launch a web design program, copy some images from Finder/Explorer/Nautilus and then paste into the web program. Voila! links and not embeddings)