13 May
2004
13 May
'04
6:29 p.m.
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Carl Hetherington wrote:
rare case that someone actually wants to snap to the bounding box they can use stroke to path to convert the shape to a new set of nodes. Please, don't start making preferences for everything!
Personally, I'd be perfectly happy with this. But as soon as someone says "I myself use bbox snapping" then I'm ok, in this case, with making it optional. I agree about keeping preferences down where possible.
I'm guessing you were referring to this widely read essay about good user interfaces by Havoc Pennington. http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html
- Alan k