Comment 9 for bug 170049

I noticed, as described above, the UI (rulers and status bar) uses one coordinate system whereas the saved SVG file uses a different coordinate system.

But that's not all. The UI is not totally self-consistent in its use of coordinates. Try importing an image file, then right click on the image and choose "Image Properties" from the context menu. The coordinates shown are based on origin at top left -- in contrast to the rulers and status bar which use bottom left origin.

As a new user, this stood out to me as being unintuitive (everything else I've tried so far in Inkscape is pretty slick though :-)