Re: Specification: Improved image properties dialog (0.48)

[Guillermo Espertino]

About image links being confusing for users... Most of the vectorial
illustration programas I know use links. Designers at least are pretty
used to the images being linked.
Anyway, those other programas also include an option on import to link
or embed images, so I agree about adding that feature.
Where I do not agree is about making embed default. Embedding is handy
in a lot of cases and would help newbies, but a serious artists or
designers would want to have those images linked, because usually they
have to be edited.
Keep in mind that a couple of images embedded won't be a problem, but
dozens in high resolution can take the svg size too high.
There's also a problem: As far as I know, it's impossible atm to convert
an embedded image to a linked image without saving it. So if you
imported it and it was embedded, when you extract it you'll have two
files in your disk.
Of course we can (and should) modify the specification to allow
re-linking to an existing file as an option along with extract the
embedded image. But I think that we should avoid making embedded images
default until we can provide that option.
And even in that case, I think we should place a preference for changing
that default.

Gez



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[Jon Cruz]

On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Guillermo Espertino wrote:

> About image links being confusing for users... Most of the vectorial
> illustration programas I know use links. Designers at least are pretty
> used to the images being linked.

...[SNIP]...

> But I think that we should avoid making embedded images
> default until we can provide that option.
> And even in that case, I think we should place a preference for  
> changing
> that default.

Ahh, good. I see that you have started to consider some of the  
consequences of flipping the image default to embed. It would be good  
if you could get some wiki page set up so that we can collect all the  
pertinent factors to keep in mind. I'm very confident that we will be  
able to reach some interesting UI solutions to solve this in a very  
nice manner for most of the users. Being able to get a good grasp on  
the whole set of problems is a key to solving things well.

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