One of the artists at work dragged me into his cube with questions after downloading and installing Inkscape 0.38. In between his gushing over the features that were in there, he made some good observations about things that'd help usability:
* Default font for text was too small when at the (default) full-size page view.
* The context menu for text should include a link to the Text and Font dialog.
* Changing font color should be easier to access via the context menu and/or the text and font properties dialog.
* The zoom mouse cursor shows a '+' when zooming in. It should show a '-' when you're zooming out (shift-mouse click)
* It would be handy to have a way to select objects "under" the object on top. E.g., a modifier to the left mouse click that would cause it to select the next object down in the stack for each click.
* When you select 2+ objects and right click, having access to some of the 'Align' and/or 'Boolean' commands could be helpful.
* When you're editing a multi-stop gradient and then close the dialog and do 'undo's, it appears to undo each individual edit to the gradient rather than just undoing the entire editing transaction.
He also had a bunch of suggestions for features, most all of which are already captured in RFE's, but here's a couple that I think are new:
* There should be a way to not only convert a text object into a node object, but also to convert the individual letters in the text object to separate text or node objects.
* Pasting text from open office to inkscape or vice versa.
* Paste style is very cool and works as expected. Some sort of 'paste size' might also be useful, if you want to force a range of shapes to have exactly the same dimensions.
Let me know if these sound ok, and I'll add RFE's for them later this week.
Bryce