My point in brining up Gnome Office is to make sure that thinks like the shared canvas, cut/paste, drag/drop are somewhere on the roadmap and that some consideration is given to sharing standards (gnome-office is looking to have some sort of plugin standard too they just haven't gotten around to it yet either).
I too prefer things to be done in a standardised way that benefits both Gnome and KDE (and even other platforms) but at the same time it is good to also have the option of building with extra features like gnome-print or gnome-vfs (still hoping a cross desktop abstraction for gnome-vfs will come along).
I have given it a little bit more thought and tried to think what parts of Gnome Office would most likely to be useful to Inkscape.
The graphing and plotting support in Gnumeric might be useful to Inkscape (I mentioned this before and showed some screenshots of how Adobe Illustrator does plots and graphs but I suspect I neglected to file a feature request).
At the moment work is being done to add GtkMathView support to Abiword, when that work is done it might serve as a useful example if/when Inkscape decides to add support for displaying mathematics.
Martin mentioned the SVG backend to Gnome-Print, if anything I should try and build from CVS and start testing the SVG against Inkscape.
These are of course long term ideas to keep in mind but again I dont want to add unnecessary pressure on more important shorter term goals.
Later
Alan