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17 Nov
2012
17 Nov
'12
5:34 a.m.
It would be more natural for the dialog to work with dragging.
There is a patch for drag and drop onto the canvas here. Reusing the existing clipboard code. Testing always appreciated ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1079971