Hi, last weekend I took a moment to download an SVN build and posted a few observations to the tracker.
One particular wishlist item which I suggested was tweaking the blur scale from linear to quadratic, which in my experimentation seemed to give me a much more even control over how much blur to apply, because I was finding the current scale, and certainly the slider, useless for the subtle effects. I've found as I've used Inkscape more over the course of the week that generally the upper 70% of the scale is useless for my purposes.
I've uploaded a comparison of the current and my proposed blur scales[1] to the tracker and would like to request comments.
Merry Xmas/whatever else you are celebrating,
Dan
[1] http://sf.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=93438&atid=604309&file_i...