In Inkscape 0.47, a new feature has been added that displays a highlighted outline of paths when they are hovered over using the "Node Tool"This brief screencast shows this new feature in action, with the path highlighting in the default red colour.
One of the super handy new features that is currently in the development version of Inkscape and will be in the 0.46 release will be the ability to Dock Dialog boxes to the side of your inkscape window. This screencast demonstrates the new docking ability. for more information on this new featue, read the inkscape 0.46 release notes... http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046
Here is a screen video of the new tool in inkscape, the flood fill. This tool will be available in the 0.46 release of inkscape
A video demonstrating the new touch selection in Inkscape. (0.46)
here is a screencast that demonstrates the new on canvas gradient editing capabilites that will come with inkscape 0.46 (when it is released)
