My comment about the minimum width of the Document Preferences dialog being set by the length of the text strings it contains was specific to Inkscape 0.43. This appears to have been improved since then - the dialog in 0.44pre3 is much better.
My comment about the minimum width of the Document
Preferences dialog being set by the length of the text
strings it contains was specific to Inkscape 0.43. This
appears to have been improved since then - the dialog in
0.44pre3 is much better.