Comment 3 for bug 333953

I'm still interested in seeing this problem fixed.
To make it short, when opening a document Inkscape is applying its hard-wired configuration which is totally arbitrary and the user cannot change it in any way.
My suggestion is to make a merge between the document (not SVGs, of course) and the current default.svg (or the localized one) and import all settings not already defined in the original source (I think almost all except page size).
If this is too strict, an alternative could be to define a special template (e.g. defaultPDF.svg for PDFs and so on) to apply at each filetype Inkscape can natively open. If one wants the same settings as in default.svg, he only needs to copy default.svg to defaultPDF.svg.
A third solution could be a "merge import settings" that one could apply after opening the document, so the operation would not be automatic but, at least, all settings could be applied all at once and not manually one by one as is now necessary.
Maybe latest progresses in templates could help?