Comment 5 for bug 555066

Krzysztof: It depends on your workflow preferences. "it would just embed the image" may be good for you but for someone who does a heavy use of linked resources is a pain.
Actually, I think I can argue that "it would just link the image and anyone who want it embedded should use the bitmap embed command". Who's right here?
One common use for a bitmap copy is taking it to a bitmap manipulation program for doing some edition.
I don't create SVG files for the web, I'm a graphic designer and I use Inkscape for brochures, signs, large prints and with embedding as default for everything the only thing I get is huge files and bitmaps that I have to extract manually. Extra work.
For me, this default is not welcome, and I'd really like to have the possibility to choose.
I'm not saying that my way is better than yours, I'm just saying that something that it's true for some users can be different for others.
I'm aware that it's impossible to please everyone and decisions have to be made, but this is not a trivial feature. It's an important part of the workflow and choosing one option over the other has impact on a large portion of the users.

I think Frank's dialog is useful. Maybe it has some details that can be improved, but in my opinion it pretty much covers the problem and it doesn't leave a huge part of the users community pissed off, which is a plus :-p