i just installed todays cvs, so basically 0.38. good job!

I'd have been testing it before the release, if I'd had the time to do so. Anyway, there's a few minor things I noticed. The stroke is not always properly displayed. When being dotted, you sometimes get dashes on one side of a rectangular. Moving or zooming helps to draw it correctly, though moving back or going back to the previous zoom-level changes it back to the wrong display.

Thank you for adding multicolor gradients! But please consider redoing the way you chose the colors... add a few arrows to the gradient display at the top that can be selected and moved around. When selected one can chose the color for that stop. a new stop is created by double clicking a stop is removed by dragging it out toward the bottom of the gradient display. Basically what it's look like is like the value selectors. I think what I discribed is how gradient in corel work, but I'm not sure about it.

Anyway, I was also wondering how an excentric gradient as the one on the screenshot on inkscape.org is created, couldn't yet figure that out.

I'll keep on testing and complaining ;) But I can see inkscape leaving corel draw behind within 2004.

Take care

David