Comment 3 for bug 170714

Take a look at how Openoffice Draw has two different types
of text (and I'm fairly sure other programs make a similar
split).

When text is a path you can treat it like any other object
and resize it - ideally Inkscape would have some magic in
the background to allow you to continue to edit pathtext
beyond the normal limitations imposed by SVG

Then the rest of the time text should probably be treated as
textbox, and the box would be resized and the text would not
change except to reflow.