I've recently downloaded both Inkscape and Gimp (have played with the Adobe equivalents before) and traced a penciled picture in Inkscape. This was done in several layers with an eye to altering them in Gimp however the Gimp import only came with paths, not layers. I have now merge all the Paths into what my layers contained but have no clue as to a way to translate the paths into layers. Can anyone help?

(t'was foolish of me to assume adobe levels of cross compatibility )