Re: [Inkscape-devel] Text inside a circle

bulia byak wrote:

IMHO the <ellipse>, <rect> etc are little more than shortcuts for those who writes SVG by hand. It would be nice if we preserve them but it's not absolutely essential. And keeping everything in <path> is so much simpler and more flexible, as this textPath issue demonstrates.

if rects are switched always to paths we lose the ability to modify at a later time the corner roundness, this is why i believe <rect> should be switched to <path> only when it receive a text attached.