I recently used Inkscape for a little bit of my "real work", and I took a few notes to share. I was using the Sept 24th build on Win 2000, which I know is a bit old. I'll grab the latest build as soon as I get a chance and start taking notes with that. Anyway, take these for what they're worth...
Text on a path is very cool. It would be nice to be able to drag the starting point of the text along the curve.
Alt+Click does not seem to work to select under in the select tool.
Middle mouse pan and zoom is great and should be in every application! Maybe Shift+MM Drag could work like dragging a box with the zoom tool. It would make the middle mouse button more complete as the document navigation button. I wouldn't ever have to switch to the zoom tool. I'll make an RFE.
The open file dialog freezes for a while right after I make my first click in the file area (even if it's a directory, or other item that needs no preview)
Editing paths becomes very slow, almost to the point of becoming unusable, at high zoom levels, or with modestly complex paths.
Text Dialog takes a long time to pop up.
The font used for menus is smaller than that used by other applications.
Keep up the good work! Michael Wheeler http://www.planet-zero.net