Thanks Jabier. By the way, for reference the right thread title is "Release Status (Frost)". I already read that thread and I knew that you had developed something related but I don't have a "Document" entry in the Extensions menu so I can't use what you are talking about nor check if it's useful to me. I supposed it's something related to the experimental branch only.
Anyway, I see your efforts to address this problem. But I think that this deserves much more attention.
I don't agree that this is an "expected behavior": also a bug is an expected behavior as seen from the the code point of view, it's just doing what it's been told to do; but we don't like it.
From the user point of view it's a BIG bug and I don't think that providing
a buried-in-menus extension (for those who have it) is the right approach. If the page is resized too, it's difficult to notice that a 10 mm long line is now 9,375 mm long until you measure it. If you open an old document for modifications, you may have already drawn new objects before realizing the problem, and then? You have half wrong document and half correct: no extension can fix this -> work lost.
Please, pay attention to this because as soon as "normal" users that never bothered with 90 or 96 DPI are going to have this release in their hands, something really bad is going to happen. Users must be warned about this and given an automatic way to fix it as soon as they open an old document. It's some internals that has been changed so you can't expect final users to understand and be already informed on what's going on. This is something that can corrupt documents! It can't be silent unless everything is automatically fixed without user intervention (and I don't think it's possible).
Luca
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