Up spake vellum:

Thanks for the detailed response bulia. This is valuable stuff and I will have to ponder. But not tonight-I mean this morning. It is 12:17am here. I will be gone until next Tuesday so you can have some peace until then. Basically I'm very happy with the latest changes. I can now do what I originally could not but there are still these little points that I do not understand.

BTW, I was looking at GNOME's stock_foo icons; there are icons for about 40% of the ones that are currently taken from the Inkscape stencil, particularly the draw-foo, node-foo and graphic-align-foo images.

They are in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/WxH/stock/CLASS/stock_foo.png, provided by the gnome-icon-theme package under Debian. They are PNGs, but ISTR they are exported from SVGs drawn by the GNOME artists.

PS: IMO something like GIMP 2.x's dockable dialogs would appease Jozsef Mak, without aggravating users who like the current arrangement.