Comment 1 for bug 306314

This bug still exists in Inkscape 0.47pre4 , built Oct 12 2009 on Windows Vista.

To recreate this bug open a new document add some text "Level 1". Click Layer -> Layers to open the Layers dialog. Click "+" and add a new layer above the existing Layer 1 but name the layer "background". Add text "background" to the layer background. In the Layers dialog click the icon to move the background layer to the bottom of the layers. The Layer dialog is updated with the correct positioning of the layers. Now click in the main window at the very bottom on the drop down layer list of layers. The list does not show the change to the order of the layers.