Comment 10 for bug 170293

@Johan - we have a problem when upgrading to the new feature with old preferences: all commands which take a value from the steps preferences (move with cursor, path inset/outset, scale with keyboard) initially fail with Inkscape trunk (there's no unit in the preferences file). As soon as the preferences dialog has been opened once (without changing anything), the preferences are updated and have the necessary units added: the commands now work as expected.

For users upgrading to a newer version, this is unexpected and the "fix" is not obvious.

Steps to reproduce:
1) quit all instances of Inkscape
2) rename current preferences file
3) launch&quit Inkscape 0.48.1 (to recreate a default preferences file)
4) launch Inkscape trunk, draw a shape and try to move it with the cursor keys -> failure
5) open and close the preferences dialog
5) try again to move the shape -> success