Reproduced on Crunchbang Waldorf, Inkscape 0.48.3.1. Not reproduced with trunk revision 13512.
> Probably because the floating version of the dialog in trunk neither restores the last opened pane, nor opens the requested one
Not sure. I tested with and without the patch from bug #184499, and the bug seems to be fixed in both cases.
Reproduced on Crunchbang Waldorf, Inkscape 0.48.3.1.
Not reproduced with trunk revision 13512.
> Probably because the floating version of the dialog in trunk neither restores the last opened pane, nor opens the requested one
Not sure. I tested with and without the patch from bug #184499, and the bug seems to be fixed in both cases.