Comment 3 for bug 171543

> I find your comments patronising and entirely unhelpful.

That is unfortunate. It was not my intention to patronise
but I have know way of knowing your past experience. It is
difficult to treat every question with the same level of
politeness as if it were asked be someone new to the project
but even when I do make the effort there will always be the
risk of misunderstanding. It is necessary to make it clear
that with open source software feature requests can often
take a very long time to get implemented.

> The separate resolution fields in the export dialog are
presumably present because this was recognised as being a
worthwhile feature even if it is not yet implemented.

If the user interface is there (especially in a release
version) and it doesn't work that is bug, but unlike other
projects the Inkscape developers tend to reserve the term
bug for more severe cases such as crashers. It is a
reasonable presumption that someone intends to either fix
that soon or remove it until they do have time to work on
it. There really shouldn't be non-functional user interface
elements.
(I suspect we might be getting caught in the strange
confusions and compromises between resolution and sizing,
the feature might actually work just not in the expected
way. I'd rather not get into the details of it though.)

> I have previously spoken to other Inkscape developers

You didn't mention it so I had no way of knowing. There are
many reports filed and yours had not yet received an answer.
 I think it is important to provide you with some kind of
response to people who maek the effort to report bugs or
requests, especially those who make the effort to login and
create an account. There is also a need reinforce the idea
that Inkscape is primarly an SVG Editor so other
enhancements might not be lucky enough to receive the same
level of attention, but in your case if there is a developer
already interested in working on it you may be lucky.