Comment 1 for bug 1645034

Thank you for reporting your experience! Without user testing and filing bugs we can't fix what is wrong. Not all users/devs have all possible platform configurations to test various behaviours so some bugs may slip through the cracks if users don't test and report their findings.

What is your Inkscape version and what is your OS?

We don't have enough devs dedicated to packaging Inkscape for different platforms, if you can please jump in and help! (I assume you're on Apple machine.)

Some UI preferences have been added and worked on relatively recently, so it would help if you could report bugs and test so they can be ironed out.

For me the Page is zoomed in so the top and bottom are cut off on 0.92pre3 (114%), but I see full page in Inkscape 0.92+devel 15261 (39%). It doesn't bother me much because it's so easy to change zoom, Inkscape has the best zooming shortcuts I've seen.

Create two objects in a new document, leave one object selected, then try all the numbers from 1 - 6 to see different zoom levels, they can depend on the selection, drawing, and general settings. And with ` key you can cycle between last used zooms, very convenient during the drawing process when you have to focus in on details but often view what it looks like in the whole drawing, zoomed out.

Why do you think Preferences dialogue doesn't belong under Edit? Most applications on Linux do, and it makes sense, those are are something to Edit. On Windows I remember having those under Tools, even though that doesn't seem like the best placement. But I do agree we should follow each platform guidelines to avoid confusion.

I'm not sure if all your window issues are related, but it might help to report a separate bug for each and provide more information about your platform and relevant configuration.