On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:12:36AM +0100, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
Ted Gould wrote:
Yes, I think the text needs to change -- but I think the dialog needs to stay.
I'd like to recommend disabling the dialog, at least until it's pretty common people will have most extensions. For one thing, it's extremely disconcerting, even for someone like me who isn't exactly a computer novice (I've been using and programming computers for years). It's simply that you don't expect a message like this popping up as soon as you start a program, and before having even read it I immediately fear something terrible has happened. It's usually simply not a very good sign if a message pops up even before the application is visible, as it usually indicates a very basic failure (something like "I'm sorry, but this thing I really need isn't there, so bye bye.").
I agree, inkscape should not present dialogs to the at startup unless something is *seriously* broken. I also recall being very startled the first time it popped up.
The nature of the way the dialog works means that darn near *everyone* who uses 0.41 will see the dialog at least once. Making every user's first experience with 0.41 be an error dialog might not give them a very good feeling about the robustness of the application in general.
Bryce