-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Diederik van Lierop Sent: zaterdag 1 december 2007 16:42 To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Grid visibility and snap enabling
J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
This way, Shift+# will still work as it does now to new users. Only advanced users will ever want to use alt or ctrl I think. The current menu item should become a submenu, containing the three toggles. This is a downside as it requires more menu
browsing than now.
Indeed, that's the other option. We can enable/disable snapping either using the nodes/bbox option, or using the grids/guides/objects option. The latter is more common, especially wanting to see the grid but not snapping to it. But shouldn't we then provide the same toggles for guides and objects, for consistency's sake?
Snapping to guides and objects is different from grid, because it is not as "predictable" as grids. I think snapping to invisible guides or objects would be strange. A general "no snap" toggle would be very nice, though most tools already have this I think.
When using the grids/guides/objects option to toggle snapping, we will need an additional checkbox for each of those in the document properties dialog. (when requiring that all snapping options should be accessible in that dialog). This is not needed when using the nodes/bbox option, as we have checkboxes for these already.
We don't have a checkbox for grid showing, just the toggle is enough. I feel it is an editing toggle, not really a document setting. (I propose *not* to save the visibility/snap toggle states, just the combined state as is done now. Otherwise, one opens a document and gets unexpected behaviour, because he does not know the grid was hidden with the toggle)
- Johan