Sorry, we're dealing with users here not developers. I see it as potentially more harmful than good. When I look at extension-errors.log the first thing I see is
"Extension "AI Output" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: pstoedit"
and this is followed by another 12 of the same.
Firstly, new user probably does not know what "dependency" means. Secondly, he/she might and I stress just might know what "type:executable" means. Third, probably doesn't know what "location:path" means and fourthly doesn't know what "string: pstoedit" means. And this goes on and on. If they don't know what they mean how are they going to install them? No way, except they have a friendly developer.
Hey,and if they turn the message off. How do they get it to show again if they want to check to see whether their installation has been successful, and they have forgotten where to look?
Maybe naieve questions but I'm trying to put myself in a new users shoes here.
vellum
----- Original Message ----- From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> To: "vellum" <kaver@...45...> Cc: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...69...>; "Ted Gould" <ted@...10...>; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Status needed for ReleaseNotes
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:13:37 +1100, vellum <kaver@...45...> wrote:
I totally agree. As a win user it freaks me out and I've been in here
for
years. "The problem is not abnormal"? I don't even know what the problem
is,
Read the warning. It explains it quite well.
so heaven help somebody picking up Inkscape for the first time.
Tons of other software have these first-run warnings of different sort. It's common. The "run this at startup" checkbox solves the problem once and forever.
telling people what to do about it. The average user just is not going
to do
anything about it, except say "Bye". They will want something that
works,
not something that half, quarter etc works.
Sorry but this is ridiculous. Just for an example, a freshly installed Xara gives me two warnings in a row (about non-English language and something else, I don't remember now). Has it precluded it from becoming a popular program? Not at all.
My thoughts are: If it doesn't work, lets put some real effort into
fixing
it
Fixing WHAT? Extensions do work IF YOU INSTALL THEM. We cannot install tons of different software with ourselves, it's your responsibility to install it if you need these formats. This is what this warning is about.
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