I finally managed to get Inkscape from cvs and built it. Of course, it required many missing packages, I've added a few ones to the wiki page. My plan was to work on the node align feature. The code for the align feature on object is in src/align.cpp, but looks like it is mainly C. Very well written C, but still C. So my first work will be to reimplement the current feature in C++, with GTKmm and libstdc++. I never used nor the first, nor the second, but looks like I can manage that. So here I go...

The second objective is to work on the node align feature. The main problem is that the GUI and the behaviour are different : there are far less possibilities to align severap points than shapes. Moreover, how do I cope with control points ? Do I let them untouched ?

I'll post GUI propositions and patches here as soon as I have something working ...