Comment 3 for bug 170137

> But how can it be that nobody seems to work on this 26
months old feature request?

Developers are all volunteers working on whatever interests
them most or they feel is important. requests could remain
open for _years_ and having a request remain open for months
is not long at all.

Even if you are not able to provide code yourself, it might
be possible to sponsor a developer or otherwise help make
some progress on this feature.

You might be interested to read the follwing document about
support expectations:
http://www.abisource.com/support/expectations.phtml
it was written about Abiword but it applies equally well to
other open source projects such as Inkscape

Hyperlinking is on the roadmap and it is definately part of
the plan, it is required for SVG complaince so do not worry
it will get done eventually.

thanks for your feedback and thanks for promoting Inkscape
to your friends