Valerie wrote:
On the issue of linking vs embedding images: can't we just have 2 commands?
- Embed an image
- Link an image
Certainly, but the problem is when the command is implicit in the action, such as Drag-and-Drop. Which should we choose?
With out thinking about users and workflows, I would like to see: 1) some on canvas indication of whether an image is linked or embeded. just something, perhaps a little icon. 2) a simple way of converting an image between the two states. I would like a context menu, but others might have better ideas. 3) a dialog listing all images, their properties and their linkedness or embededness. the dialog should also allow switching the location of the images.
I don't think these things solve the problem of choosing suitable defaults, but they might make the problem even more apparent and supply another way of dealing with it.
Aaron Spike