Hello Andreas, thanks for your report. On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 02:34:40PM +0100, Andreas Neudecker wrote: [...snip...] > > After installing Sketch, libwmf-bin and Dia (pstoedit was already installed), > Inkscape starts without error dialogue. > > It seems that Inkscape's handling of import/export features for several file > formats has been changed, right? So, without installing the packages given > above > import/export for these file formats will not work (any more). No, it did not. AFAIK, the only user visible thing that changed was that inkscape now warns at the beginning if it could not load the extensions. > > * This should be clarified in the program description. > * Those packages should be "promoted" to "Recommends" instead of "Suggests" > status in Inkscape's dependencies, because important functionality is provided > through their use. I did both in my current tree. I think I will upload a new version soon. > > > Additionally, the error dialogue should produce some more helpful information. > "Go, look in ~/.inkscape/extension-errors.log" may not be helpful for many > users. > If the program can write that information to this file, why can it not produce > the same information in the error dialogue? It might even be put in > understandable terms, like for example: > > > " > Could not start extension "Windows Metafile Input". > Reason: Program/library package "libwmf-bin" is needed but was not found. > > Could not start extension "Postscript Input". > Reason: Program/libary package "pstoedit" is needed but was not found. > > [...] > " > > > (By the way. The German translation of the error log could use some > rephrasing, > it's not particularly good. Or rather, leave the error log in English, but > provide the improved error dialogue on the GUI.) In the debian package, I changed the german translation an will submit the patch upstream. I will also submit your above suggestions as an RFE. > > > Kind regards > > > Andreas
With best wishes, Wolfi
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