Comment 3 for bug 520532

Could I know what "does not work as expected". The patch is doing following: if you launch inkscape by clicking the icon, the stdout and stderr are redirected to invalid file handles as it is normal in windows applications. When inkscape is launched from a console, you will get the console output on the console (works on Windows XP and later) with all the eventual debugging messages. For instance all glib and gtk critical errors and warnings show. This can be useful when things are not doing what one expects. It is also good because one can produce one version with symbols, strip the symbols into a separate inkscape.exe.debug file and use that version as a normal version. When debugging is needed, one can just install the debug files and have all the console stuff present.