Comment 6 for bug 170218

What we're talking about here is Graph Layout. This sort of
functionality would first depend on the connector tool that
I am currently working on.

There is a member of our research group at Monash
University, Tim Dwyer, who works on layout algorithms and is
interested in exploring the possibility of graph layout
functionality in Inkscape once connectors are done. More on
this in a couple of months when we have connectors.