On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ted Gould wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 03:13, ttyS0 wrote:
Why default fill-opacity value is 0.75?
In W3C SVG Specification default value is 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OpacityFillOpacityProperty
This is for objects that don't specify. When objects are drawn in Inkscape their opacity is specified. This is adjustable in your ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml file in <group id="tools" style="">.
To answer the 'why' of this - initially all shapes were created gray, with 100% opacity. We thought that was too ugly for Inkscape, so changed it so the shapes are different colors with 75% opacity. It was made that way just to make the user's first experience be more colorful. Like Ted says, the settings can be overridden in your preferences file.
Bryce