I have a new idea to do something in Inkscape that will help the artists a lot. * * *For the same I have been digging into the files:* fill-and-stroke.(cpp+h) paint-selector.(cpp+h) fill-style.(cpp+h) I could figure out all the details of how the FiLL and STROKE dialog box is drawn plus how it interacts with the objects. What I don't get is the code where the changes are actually applied to the selected objects on the canvas(desktop). *Facts I already know:* 1.) in Inkscape, there are two representations of the document being worked on: Object and XML. 2.) Changes in the XML Representation is automatically reflected in GObject Representation but not vice versa. Please help ! -- demicoder