[Inkscape-devel] Inkscape as console application

(This may be off-charter for Inkscape Devel, in which case I apologise).

I was stepping through inkscape under gdb (on BSD without X) and found that the "sp-console-main( )" seems to have a code path that calls gdk_devices_list() (whilst loading preferences).

Is this intentional?

It is possible that I am talking nonsense, and I have somehow messed up the sources, but there are a number of concerns if there is any merit in what I am saying.

I would certainly like to have an X-free or no-X command-line or console version of Inkscape, and I would be interested in any thoughts.

Ben