Quoting Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...>:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 mental@...3... wrote:
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:15:17 -0500 From: mental@...3... To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] extensions usability
We need to rethink this approach to warning about unloaded extensions. It seems to be causing a LOT of confusion amongst
our
user community, of which the below is representative.
Can it be reduced back to a Console Warning?
Last I heard on Win32, any console warnings result in a console window popping up that users sometimes try to close -- thereby rather ungracefully killing Inkscape.
(which is probably a sign that we need to reexamine console handling there ... didn't we have some sort of console dialog in the works?)
At the moment there are not that many extensions and even so I'd much prefer to be warned at some other time like when I try to use functionality that is not currently avialalbe without the plugin.
At the very least the dialog needs some text explaining the implications for the users so they don't jump to the conclusion that Inkscape is broken.
I still believe it is a problem to be showing (non technical) users such distractions at startup at all.
I'm rather inclined to agree...
-mental