Comment 1 for bug 171499

Please try not to file anonymous requests. instead
please get an account and login so we can ask for
follow up information if necessary.

Please also try checking through existing request to
avoid filing duplicate reports. Other users may have
submitted requests which turn out to be very similar but
expressed them in a slightly different way.

changed the summary to reflect the fact that you are editing
documents outside inkscape and want inkscape to react

it is better to describe the problem than to be overly
specific about implementation details "revert every x
seconds" because the developers will have their own ideas
about how best to solve the underlying problem. In this
case with the right underlying infrastructure there should
be no need to bastardise the Revert dialog, and like many
other programs (such as the Netscape html editor) it should
be possible to show a special dialog warning the file has
changed on disk and offer to reload it.