as a convinced Inkscape user and former C++ developper, I decided to at least try to join the developpment team.
Welcome!
So I pulled the code from cvs and started to look at something intersting me : aligning nodes.
If you're trying to make Align dialog work on nodes as well as on objects, then yes, it's a great idea. I've been meaning to do this for ages but other things are always distracting me, so if you can work on this it's great. See also another idea that I plan to do, in comments here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=865050&grou...
Another idea I've had is to add Random distribution to the Distribute tab. Should be easy once you figure out that dialog.
this code works Gtk::Image *pImg= new Image ("/x/y/z/toto.png");
while this one don't Gtk::Image *pImg= new Image (Gdk::Pixbuf::create_from_file("/x/y/z/toto.png"));
Judging by http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1Image.html, both uses are valid. But we haven't yet used Gtkmm in this project so I can't tell. Mental, can you comment?