Re: [Inkscape-devel] UI ideas for quadratic and elliptic curves?

SVG also allows horizontal and vertical segments too

They are no different than ordinary line segments beyond shortening the representation a bit, so it doesn't make much sense to treat them specially. On the other hand elliptical and quadratic beziers would allow users to edit the paths differently: it's rather hard to create a circular or elliptical shape with cubic beziers without resorting to boolean operations on ellipses. I'm not instisting on supporting those kinds of segments, but if we can come up with a good UI to edit them, why not provide this?

Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński