Ted Gould wrote:

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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.

Let me tell you a story: I'm a inkscape user that eventually learned to use inkscape to make vector drawings. I use debian sid ,so I just made an update to apt-get.If you have used it you know how easy is to upgrade +30 programs at once.I was working hard until night for a deadline project so I just shut down the computer and didn't use this computer for some days when finished. Later ,I needed to open a SVG to work with and so it happened:

One or more extensions failed to load!!!

The failed extensions have been skipped...

What the hell? (#?!(%$·#!!!!!).Something is crashed,but what?,I open inkscape from command line ,no indication.No help.Nada.Nil.Nothing.

Simply ,I don't know what an extension here means,I only recently read the mailing list,and don't know.They are optional parts like extras or fundamental part? It says: [...]please refer to the error log located a[...]ooh, so it's an error. (If it wasn't inkscape will start without pushing an (annoying) OK button.)

But it's strange ,I could use inkscape like I was used to and nothing breaks (but beware ,don't trust, something is broken and could make lost your important data). I didn't unmarked "Show dialog on startup" because if something is broken I don't want it to hide this fact.

No need to tell you that I didn't read /home/xxx/.inkscape/extension-errors.log(or if I did don't remember), and it took me some time to connect the general update with this "crash".I thought it was inkscape having problems,then I notice something different with the program,had a look to about dialog to see that I just installed a new version.

Sorry for my behavior, if I had no others things to do I'd do better Jose Hevia