Package: inkscape
Version: 0.43-0.0etch1
Severity: normal

Inkscape is great!  my only complaint is that it always launches by
default with A4 paper (yes, i'm an American... sigh).

when i change /usr/share/inkscape/default.svg by hand, new versions of
inkscape overwrite my changes.

it seems like there are enough clues available in debian to pick the
system's preferred default paper size and set up
/usr/share/inkscape/default.svg with symlinks or something during
package installation.

possible options include:

  * LC_PAPER (locale's paper settings)
  * debconf:libpaper/defaultpaper (at the moment only requested by libpaper1)
  * /etc/papersize or /usr/bin/paperconf

These last two come from the libpaper1 package, which maybe would mean
inkscape would have an additional dependency (though it's not a
heavyweight one).

Even fancier would be for inkscape to decide which package is the
default at runtime using /usr/bin/paperconf or LC_PAPER or something
similar.  This would let different users on the same system have their
own preferred default paper sizes just by setting environment
variables.

Thanks for maintaining inkscape!

        --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages inkscape depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.10.3-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.10.1-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-8        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1            2.3.2-1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-2.4      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgc1c2                  1:6.5-1        conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.0.2-2      GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.10.1-6       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.8.3-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2         2.6.1-1.2      C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.10.1-5       The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.6.10-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2          1:2.6.2-1.1    C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.12.4-1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.8.2-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libperl5.8                5.8.7-7        Shared Perl library
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.8rel-5     PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2         2.0.16-1       type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                4.0.2-2        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxft2                   2.1.7-1        FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2                   2.6.22-2       GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.0-2      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1                1.1.15-1       XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-8      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages inkscape recommends:
ii  dia                        0.94.0-15     Diagram editor
ii  imagemagick                6:6.2.4.5-0.2 Image manipulation programs
ii  libwmf-bin                 0.2.8.3-3     Windows metafile conversion tools
ii  perlmagick                 6:6.2.4.5-0.2 A perl interface to the libMagick 
pn  pstoedit                   <none>        (no description available)
ii  sketch                     0.6.15-1      Interactive vector drawing program

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