A couple of small points.
Concise descriptions or hints.
eg. currently Inkscape has "fits the whole page into window [5]" in dialog of view. Suggestion. Better as "fit page in window [5]". Maybe people could look at the hints (don't know the correct name for these little yellow guys :-)) and suggest what they find most concise/elegant from their own favorite programs.
Suggested addition to the view dialog. In the real drawing world the "fit page in window" view is extremely useful. Equally useful is the view "fit page width in window". This is especially so since much work is done in portrait mode.
Does Inkscape have a "wireframe" or "preview/outline mode"? This is again extremely useful when drawings get complex with many overlapping objects. It may allready be present but I have not found it yet. Please let me know if it is here.
I am using Win2000 and so far so good.
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