I think I am with Bulia here... why remove it? I feel it's more comfortable this way.

What I really would like to see is realtime display refresh while dragging spiro path knots just as revisions below 20xxx seemed to do it. Right know Spiro is difficult to control because you need to drag multiple time to pinpoint the exact position of a single knot.
With realtime display refresh I could just drag the knot and see how it would look and then release the mouse button when the knot is in the right position. Just as all the other path manipulation processes work. Much more intuitive.

André

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Absender: bulia byak
Datum: 13.01.2009 19:24 Uhr 
On 1/13/09, Thomas Holder <speleo3@...58...> wrote:
  
Hi,

spiro mode in freehand pen tool does not make sense.
    

Why? Right off, it produces smoother curves, especially at high
smoothing value. At low smoothing, the visible difference is not that
great, but when you start to node-edit it, the behavior is quite
different, and for me, much more pleasant. I want all my paths to
behave that way when editing, so why exclude one of the path tools?

  
Even for bezier tool the spiro mode is not that useful, as you don't see
the spiro while drawing (which would be nice indeed).
    

Sure it would. Just needs to be coded.

  
But since you
still draw beziers and spiro just gets applied _after_ path finishing,
you could likewise apply it via the path effects dialog.
    

Hmm, there's quite a difference in the effort spent between just
releasing the mouse and going into some dialog, digging Spiro among
dozens of other LPEs, clicking Apply...