KDE 's oxygen-gtk theme engine apparently conflicts with Inkscape's guides feature in 0.91: ⋅ Bug #1109812 “ Guides not accessible in KDE ” Yes. After I changed the GTK2 and GTK3 styles in System Settings > Application Appearance > GTK to Mint-X Blue instead of the default oxygen-gtk, I w...

I've been a casual user of Inkscape 0.48 for a fairly long time. I've recently updated to 0.91, and I'm excited about the new features! The new guide system is hard to get used to, but I can imagine that it could facilitate better productivity. My operating system is Linux Mint 17.1 KDE . I can't fi...