It seems like I was doing something wrong, outset is the right tool. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the reply. The problem I have is that Inkscape seems to "Outset" by a percentage of the width/height. Say you have a tall thin rectangle and outset it. The width will grow by a lot less that the height. On GIMP, when growing the selection, each edge would move exactly X pixels o...

I need to enlarge a path in Inkscape such like the Select>Grow tool on Gimp. I tried the tweak tool but that does not grow all selected paths uniformly and the shape of the path affects how much it grows (width and height)

Please help