On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:09:12PM -0700, William Swanson wrote:
The downside is the single "snap sensitivity" group. The prior system offered much more flexibility in terms of different snap sensitivities for different areas. Does anybody see this as a serious loss? I have personally never needed the extra flexibility, but others may have different experience. Bulia?
I could easily imagine wishing to have different snap sensitivities for different work modes.
For example, I might specify To Paths to snap very tightly, and a weak snap sensitivity to Nodes, so that if I want to put something on a node, I can "feel" it snap into place, without having the nodes steal snaps too much. I imagine this to be a common use case for drawing cartoons.
Or another good example would be making snap to grid be set extremely highly, but have the guides and paths also have a small amount of snap, so that if I'm zoomed out, and the grid is very fine, I can rely more on snapping to existing lines. This is a very common case when you're doing technical drawing.
In a way, it seems like it might be useful to have saveable presets, so a novice user could pick some sort of "cartoon style snapping", and another could pick "technical snapping" or "grid-only snapping". Advanced users would be able to hit the "Customize snapping" button and pull up the advanced screen to adjust snapping of specific aspects and then save as "My Snap Style" for future use.
This could get especially valuable as we start having new kinds of grids, more things to snap to, etc.
Bryce