Why would built-in raster functionality create anything different than what you would get by doing your raster bits inside an external editor (i.e. GIMP) and importing the results into Inkscape?
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Raster Functionality in Inkscape by Christopher Brown, mentored by Theodore J. Gould
I'm curious about this one because the writeup basically says this will create things that aren't SVG. Is there a plan to make a new file extension at some point? It would still be mostly SVG, just augmented with extra stuff. The Inkscape-specific extension would be like a warning -- "This is not plain vanilla svg and may not render correctly as such". Kinda like how .ai files are mostly just regular .ps files, but if it doesn't look right in your .ps viewer, you know you should try it in Illustrator.
--bb