Comment 8 for bug 1049481

@John - what do you think about the issue raised by insaner (comment #5) [1], and about the patch you wrote earlier for better swatch support?

[1] could possibly also be the cause for <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39418> though the user doesn't disclose whether he actually has a development snapshot build installed.