Poor wording in data-loss prompt

[Does it matter?]

When a new document has been saved in a non-native format and the user subsequently attempts to close it, a prompt warns the user about the loss of data and suggests that they "Save as SVG", even if the format that the document was saved in was an SVG variant.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Duplicate of Bug #418085 “wrong lossy format warning message”?
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/418085>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> and suggests that they "Save as SVG", even if the format
> that the document was saved in was an SVG variant

Choosing a variant of SVG doesn't mean there is no risk of data loss: Formats like 'Plain SVG' and 'Optimized SVG' are seen as lossy formats compared to Inkscape's native format (Inkscape SVG(Z)) because they doesn't support Inkscape-specific extensions and attributes which e.g. allow to keep the document structured into layers, shapes parametrized and path effects editable and live-updating.

[Does it matter? (adrien-johnson+launchpad)]

Yes, I didn't mean that no SVG variants were lossy, just that since Inkscape supports saving in many SVG formats, only a subset of which are considered lossless, one shouldn't take "SVG" to mean "a lossless format".

The prompt actually gets it mostly right, the body text says "Do you want to save this file as an Inkscape SVG?", but the affirmative button on the prompt is labeled "Save as SVG".

Is this unimportant? Yes, but when the fix would be as simple as relabeling the button "Save as Inkscape SVG", or even "Yes" (though I hear "Yes" buttons are unfashionable these days), it's hardly a waste of time.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Committed in the trunk, revision 11048.