14 Jul
2004
14 Jul
'04
5:51 p.m.
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?
Yes but:
The messages must be informative. "Cannot find helper" - huh?
The stdout is a bad place for the messages. What if I never use Dia and don't want to install it? Seeing this message every time I run Inkscape (and I always run it from command line, usually with a filename parameter) is going to become very annoying.