Comment 9 for bug 437929

attached patch will put valid version information (instead of version="1") while creating the preferences file. See comment #3 point 2.

The patch puts same information as in src/menus-skeleton.h line 12

the section will look like:
<inkscape
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   version="0.46+devel">

Adib.