Hi,<br>I think a project aimed at improving image management in Inkscape would be great for students fromEcole Centrale Lyon. If you think it&#39;s a good idea, I could mentor a team of students that could work on this. (The same kind of work than we&#39;ve done in the past : LPE for groups, stacking and envelope 2 years ago and Spray tool last year).<br>

<br>Concerning the smart broken link feature: <br>Gez was worried about the time image path replacement would take. But in fact, once the system has found the new paths, it is only a replacement of XML attrributes. I think it doesn&#39;t cost computation time at all. Gez mentioned computation time needed when ungrouping a large group of objects, I think this is due to big XML manipulation. Here it&#39;s only an attribute replacement. But I may be mistaken, someone can help us ?<br>


<br>I still want to discuss about the ID field. I don&#39;t think it is a good idea to put it in &quot;Image Properties&quot;. For me the user identify the image by either a thumbnail or the path.<br>The ID field is already accessible in the &quot;Object Properties&quot; window. The user case Gez mentioned that uses ID is web design (we can consider that for artistic work, keeping all IDs meaningful is too much work). I think the &quot;Object Properties&quot; window is sufficent and may be more the window to open when doing web design.<br>

So I would vote to remove ID from the top of Image properties. We can remove it completely or move it to &quot;show image details&quot;<br><br>A last point to discuss is an Image manager. I described it in my initial blueprint: <a href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Image_links_manager">http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Image_links_manager</a><br>

I think the enhancement of the image properties window is great. And I wonder if an other window that regroups all the images currently in the document can be useful. This is to discuss.<br><br>Steren.