Excuse me if i offend somebody,
But i think that if inkscape looks or works more similar to the softwares that works under windog : ) more designer would be willing to emigrate., i always speak thinking in the designers, because i am one, and now i am teacher in one of the more important universities in my country, where are the first Design School, so is a very important place where to start to talk about open source, free software, etc, but is hard when you only know Adobe and Corel, convence the people that there is a new and easy way to work without fear about licenses, demands, viruses, etc. if you need to learn something from the begining.... normally people say me: No, I already use Adobe, and it was hard to learn, imagine you to start over from scratch.
I dont want a vulgar copy of illustrator, i am following in love with inkscape, it is agile, lightweight, and potent, has the strong properties of corel, as the posibility to create arts of big sizes, but i want do not change a lot of my process of work.
Thanks for all input and ideas.