One thing I'd like to address for the 0.45 release cycle is finally flipping Inkscape's coordinate system to match the SVG specification.
However, before we can do that, there's one big looming issue:
Grid and guides are stored in "Sodipodi coordinates". That means, for example, that a horizontal guide at position 0 will be at the bottom of the page.
To address this, I'd like to propose a new feature: allow the user to specify the origin for grid and guides. The UI for the setting would be one of those 9x9 button grid things, which lets you pick one of nine positions:
- top left - top center - top right - left center - center - right center - bottom left - bottom center - bottom right
Guide positions would be reckoned from the selected edges, so that changing from top left to top right would flip the position of vertical guides.
Thoughts?
-mental