This does not happen in GNOME, nor does it happen with other Inkscape dialogs under KDE.

It also does not happen in KDE 3.1.3 which is why I did not catch it. See discussion here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=938123&grou...

Please try the solution discussed there and report your results in a comment.

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