I have a problem with the behavior of the text tool which has been bugging me (excuse the pun) ever since 0.46 came out and still exists in the dev builds. I'm guessing it's something unique to my system or else it would have been reported long ago.
First, my system description: Windows XP SP2, with Hebrew language support and some Hebrew fonts installed. I also have Inkscape installed on my Ubuntu system at home, with no problems there.
The problem is with the font selection drop-down box in the toolbar. On my system, it just doesn't work. I can't select fonts using it. If I have text selected, I can open the drop down, and click on a font, but then nothing happens. the drop down list stays open as if I haven't clicked anything.
If I'm on the text tool but have not yet clicked on the canvas and don't have any text selected, I can select a new font from the list, it will seem as if I just set a new font, but once click on the canvas to begin writing, the font reverts to the last used font.
I can only use the text dialog to change font. The font size drop-down box on the toolbar works normally though.
Is this a known bug? if not I'll report it officially in the bug tracker.
Michael