Inkscape

  1. Bug #1663845
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1663845

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote : Re: Inkscape 0.92 does'n open external links to SVG-files (v. 091 does)

Opening files directly via http/https links in Inkscape uses gnome-vfs (a deprecated library). The dependency on gnome-vfs
1) is a build-time configure option, and
2) has runtime requirements (daemon) if used via GUI (IIRC)

Inkscape 0.92 for 16.04 is provided via inkscape-devs PPA (the distro still has 0.91):
https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable

From the build log of 0.92 for 16.04:
> WITH_GNOME_VFS: OFF
 https://launchpadlibrarian.net/302219305/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.inkscape_0.92.0+66~ubuntu16.04.1_BUILDING.txt.gz

The Inkscape 0.92 package for Ubuntu 16.04 as offered via PPA was configured and compiled without gnome-vfs support, thus this feature is not enabled.

Progress to migrate from gnome-vfs to GIO is tracked in
* Bug #715215 “Port from GnomeVFS to GIO”
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/715215
(so far, no activity on this, will likely happen at some point for >= 0.93 (GTK3))