On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...1063....> wrote:

I'm not sure we can do anything about this, since this would get
really cumbersome with groups that contain a few widely separated
objects. (By the way, Alt+click to select under doesn't seem to work
for me - do others also encounter this?)

Are you running linux? If so it's likely your WM stealing the Alt to move a window. If you're on Ubuntu for example, open up ccsm, find the icon for Move Window, go in there and you can change the shortcut to use the Super key instead. I have historically had issues with Ubuntu resetting this to the stupid default whenever it feels like it. It's the damn "Windows" key, of course that should be what you move windows with. ;)

> * 1 user thought Export Bitmap would make a PDF and didn't expect PDF
> in "Save As"

I suggest no changes in this case. PDF is definitely not a bitmap.

Agreed. This also ties into the age old Save vs Export debate insanity... If someone wants to code up a mega Export dialog that handles all the "foreign" formats, then that would be the better solution.

> * 1 user had screen size issues where many elements were off the sides
> of the screen.

Does this refer to UI elements or drawing elements?

If referring to UI, those things were in the pop-out/expansion menus that appear when the toolbars are too short. It's not ideal, but it still makes all of those things available. If drawing elements they can zoom out.

> * New users found it hard to locate rotate handles, slow clicking not
> expected. Some would use the transform dialog instead.

I think this action should stay, since it is convenient and a core
feature since almost forever, but there could be an additional way to
switch between the modes which is more discoverable (e.g. right click?
toolbar button?). The message in the status box does say that clicking
will toggle between scale and rotate handles, but maybe it's not
visible enough.

Another option is to go the route other apps have gone. One is like how Krita does it where if you hover the line between control handles it shows a skew cursor, and just out past the corner handles the cursor changes to show rotation... if I'm not mistaken, this is how AI does (or at least did it with rotation). There's also the SVG-edit or Autodesk products method which just adds one more handle for rotation. See here https://autocad360.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1154467 or to try yourself check svg-edit, create an object and then go to the Selector tool to see how it works. http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html

> * All users could not find document size settings. Expecting Edit >
> Crop to Selection or similar function.

Adding this to the menu sounds like a good idea. Also, the document
properties dialog should allow you to adjust the page size using
draggable handles.

Perhaps a dedicated tool to relocate the page like AI has (which could also handle creating/editing viewboxes one day as well).

Cheers,

Josh