Comment 21 for bug 169623

Seriously??? It's been FIVE YEARS and this isn't closed yet?!?!?! I've just been googling like a maniac trying to figure out how to change the default background color. I'm new to Inkscape, and I just want to do some simple white titles for a video presentation. I have to do about 30 titles, and there's no way I'm going to keep changing the background opacity back and forth.

As I myself contribute to and maintain open source software, I strongly feel that FIVE YEARS is a long freaking time for such a minuscule feature.

Please just accept William Swanson's patch!!!!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/169623/+attachment/1185169/+files/CanvasColor4.patch