Comment 16 for bug 172162

Steren:
- IDs are very important. An ID Is an unique name for each element in your SVG document. Inkscape names these IDs automatically, but keeping a good naming scheme for the elements is always a good practice for creating organized documents, making it easier to modify or re-use elements in the future. Also IDs are used for export, interactivity, etc. I think Inkscape in general has this important tag pretty hidden and would be nicer if it is more visible to the user.
I also thought about a thumbnail. Of course it would be nice, but probably packing so many features in the specification at the beginning makes it look too complicated to be started, so I planned to start with something that can be implemented re-using the existing structure. Of course we can add the thumbnail as an optional enhancement in the specification. I agree.

- Yes, I'm aware of the edit externally command. I wrote that because it is already implemented and it works, and it isn't crucial to move it into the image properties dialog.
I mean, it's there, it's functional. We can move it to that dialog later, but it's not urgent.

- It depends. The user might want to skip the smart re-linking so the replacement of the links on the actual document should be performed after the user confirms that he want it. The re-linking process would have two stages: detection of possible re-link targets, and commit those changes after user's confirmation.
About the list of images that are going to be re-linked... what for? It would be merely informative.
In your proposal it makes more sense, but in this case I think it only clutters the window. I'd rather use the verbose output of the command line for that information.