Thanks to bulia byak for working on guides. It's a tool I can't live without and it's been improved so much that I find it really powerful.
Sincerely, I preferred the old arrow cursor (I work under Windows). Now the four-arrow is less precise and its changing whenever you hover is a bit disturbing. I understand that on different OSs the default cursor can be problematic but this imposes the change also where it's not.
Anyway, if you are already over the guide, shift-click to rotate (without moving the mouse) and start the rotation, the cursor never changes. This happens also under other circumstances where you click (or unclick) without moving the cursor. I don't know if this is an OS issue and can be fixed.
Another thing I noticed is that the rotation snap is calculated from the guide's starting position. I think that as guides are used as absolute anchors, it would be more intuitive to have absolute snapping angles also (i.e. if the guide is at -2.25° and the snapping is every 15°, the snapping will be 0°, 15°, 30°... not -2.25°, 12.75°, 27.75°...). I don't feel that the relative snapping could be really useful (at least to me), but maybe I'm wrong.
And finally, I'd like to ask: is there a real reason for which the guide's origin can't be forced under the cursor whenever you grab the guide? This would let you snap the origin to a particular point simply moving and snapping the guide. Is it useful moving the guide and having the origin move accordingly? I can say that for what I use Inkscape I never need this, but maybe under different circumstances someone could. That's why I ask. If not, would it be difficoult to implement? And in any case, if you move the guide by hand you cannot place its origin precisely and you could obtain the same result snapping the guide and then sliding the origin through it; if you don't need to snap the guide you coudl directly place the origin where desired (and maybe having it under the cursor makes the whole more intuitive).
Thanks for your work.
bulia byak wrote:
In rev 21647 I added a statusbar hint, made cursor change when you're about to rotate (i.e. far from anchor over the guide and with Shift pressed), and implemented rotation snapping with Shift+Ctrl. Release notes are updated.
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