Now the page color, settable in the document options dialog and saved with the document, is also used as the background color when exporting anything from this document. By default this color is white and 100% transparent, so the default export has transparent background as before. However you can set it e.g. to white 0% transparent and have white background in PNG without having to add any background objects.
For this to be possible I added inkscape:pageopacity attribute to the namedview. Now the page color is split into the pagecolor and inkscape:pageopacity attributes - ugly but at least partially compatible with Sodipodi.
By the way, Sodipodi now has an extra color picker right on the Export dialog for the same purpose (setting background color for export). I think simply using page color is more natural and convenient. Especially given that, in the typical Sodipodi fashion, that picker's color is not saved/restored anywhere...
I'm also thinking about saving export dpi in the namedview as well, so that each document would remember its last dpi setting. I think it's logical.
Other improvements today: font list in the text dialog is autoscrolled to always show selected font; text object description shows font in the statusbar; currentColor and userSpaceOnUse fixes ported from Sodipodi; and many other bugfixes.
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