Alan Horkan wrote:
I must say that arrow keys moving is already much more powerful in Inkscape (both by pixels and by fixed increments), while using arrow keys for rotating objects is a very stupid idea, imho. Arrow keys just don't stand for rotation. I'm now implementing a comprehensive set of shortcuts for rotation using [ and ] keys with various modifiers.
[clearly i need to build and use InkScape a whole lot more and not be so badly uninformed about how things like the spiral tool work, but the machine i use for most of the day and write my email on has a fairly minimal selection of software]
Actually, it indicates a problem. I was also not aware of the geometric spiral option until peter pointed it out to me :) To me it suggests that this functionality needs to be made more visible.
Incidently, the spirals in your example were quite poor with respect to the approximation - inkscape's spirals are much better.
njh