Sometimes when I select an object the colors in the dialog is displayed limited, and not at all a representation of the full spectrum. Suddenly it goes away when selecting other objects (but not always)..? Im curious if this is some feature I dont understand the meaning of or if it is simply bug. unfortunately it happens frequently enough to impede my workflow.

I haven't experienced this in 0.48 or 0.91. It's unclear what causes it to happen, it just suddenly and seemingly at random happens when selecting an object.

You can see what I mean from the screen shot below. The object in this case is just a green square.

I believe this is a known bug, mentioned in the release notes.

Fill and Stroke: HSL color selector may show corrupted colors, defunct 5th slider (Bug #1635982)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1635982

Thanx tyler. I wonder how this was not discovered during the development of 0.92; what with how often it happens? Well, it might be it didn't happen so often for them as for me.

Stuff happens... we just found a doozie, that is a minor oversight with major repercussions.

It was known, but couldn't be fixed in time (else it wouldn't have been mentioned in the release notes).

tylerdurden wrote:Stuff happens... we just found a doozie, that is a minor oversight with major repercussions.

Oh yeah, that one is kind of annoying and confusing too

Moini wrote:It was known, but couldn't be fixed in time (else it wouldn't have been mentioned in the release notes).

ah I see, that was a shame. It makes sense, thanks.